Comments: Normalizing relations with Cuba will not,
La Noonan is a member of the Fair Play for Cuba Committee.
Posted by Fat Man at December 20, 2014 12:24 PM
So keeping the same US policy for 50 years didn't do any good. Seems that 50 years of Castro rule hasn't done Cuba any good, either.
And then there's "no one else embargoes travel to or trade with Cuba." Lack of other embargoes, vacationing Canadians and Europeans should provide some pretty good hard currency to improve things there. But for some reason it's our embargo that keeps the Cubanos down, rather than the policies of the Castro dictatorship.
Just too much lefty cognitive dissonance there for me.
Posted by OldFert at December 20, 2014 6:38 PM
Noonan is again an idiot.
Raoul Castro now can keep being as oppressive and brutal as ever before, but with a better economy and more money to play with. This legitimizes him in the eyes of his people an the world.
Smart Diplomacy evidently means "give the worst enemies of the US what they want and get nothing from them."
Posted by Christopher Taylor at December 20, 2014 7:31 PM
Chris: we'll get something from them: plague, starving refugees, future Democrats, blight and burden.
“Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free.”
And if you don't we will come over and pick them up. No charge.
Posted by chasmatic at December 21, 2014 6:56 AM
I am tired of fooling around, he said. As for the rights of anyone, tell your people they can go fuck themselves.
The Colonel by Carolyn Forche
Posted by chasmatic at December 21, 2014 10:30 PM