Cuba Si, Colombia No?

The $410 billion Omnibus spending bill, now working its way through the Senate for a second time, contains a buried provision to ease U.S. economic sanctions on the island.

And in return for this, Castro gives . . . nothing.

Now let's go over what Colombia has done for the U.S.

Last year, Colombia put its own soldiers in harm's way on a daring mission to rescue three American hostages held by terrorists in the jungle. They're free now.

Colombia's now preparing to send its own soldiers into Afghanistan, part of Obama's plan to boost troops there, at a time when our supposedly more major allies in Europe are flatly refusing to go.

It has also provided massive intelligence help on drug traffickers and smugglers, allowed the U.S. embassy in Bogota to almost become a de facto base for military operations on its own territory and it has foiled many terrorist plots.

Colombia's extradited more than 600 narcoterrorist thugs to the U.S., and is now helping Mexico in its monstrous war on drugs at a time when that war is spilling over our borders.

Its reward: Colombia's now in its third year of waiting for passage of a free trade treaty it bent over backwards to get.

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