Definition of a failed policy . . . and its solution: The U.S. government has, for more than five decades, worked for regime change in Cuba. The embargo is designed to destabilize the regime, as are many of the clandestine programs. (The Bay of Pigs invasion was perhaps the crudest, most obvious, attempt by the U.S. to rid Cuba of Communism -- also, probably the least successful.) There is no evidence that the Castro brothers -- the father of the revolution, Fidel, and his younger brother, Raul, who currently rules the country, will ever die. Even if they do die, there’s nothing in the record to suggest that the U.S. government will have success removing the leaders who follow. U.S. policy toward Cuba has been a comprehensive failure . . . On a policy level, all of USAID’s subterranean work to open Cuba to the Internet, and therefore to American ideas, may be unnecessary. Senator [Robert] Menendez, who wants Cubans to be free, surely knows there is a more efficient way to expose Cubans to American ideas: end the embargo.
Posted on: Tue, 15 Apr 2014 19:30:00 +0000
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