Jimmy Carter: “We would prefer cooperation through a detente that increasingly involves similar restraint for both sides.”

I don't agree with that at all.

Well, the agreement is not supposed to help the Cuban dictators and it doesn't. But the agreement does it helps both the Cuban people and the American people in the long-term.

All of us owe them our gratitude and respect.

That our country for the first time in my lifetime has abandoned basic principles of human rights.