Obama's Handshake With Raul Castro Is Only Offensive If You Ignore 75 Years Of History

The Twittersphere went wild Tuesday morning, when President Barack Obama exchanged a brief handshake with Cuban President Raúl Castro, brother of Fidel Castro, at the memorial service for former South African President Nelson Mandela. The gesture was unplanned, according to the White House, but significant nonetheless. Fifty years after the Communist revolution that placed Fidel Castro in power, the U.S. and Cuba still share no formal diplomatic relations. And the last time an American presiden...