Why Not Finally Leave Cuba Alone?
According to the Wall Street Journal, “President Trump on Monday signed a presidential memorandum to restore hard-line U.S. policy toward Cuba, reversing the Biden administration’s late-term efforts to ease some restrictions on the communist-run island.”
Yawn! Same old, same old. Keep targeting the Cuban with the brutal, decades-old economic embargo in the hope of finally — finally! — achieving regime change on the island. When it comes to Cuba, hope springs eternal within the U.S. national-security establishment that the Cuban people, faced with death by starvation, will finally — finally! — revolt against their communist regime and replace it with another brutal pro-U.S. “capitalist” dictator.
The Journal continues: “The memorandum reinforces the Trump administration’s stance that Cuba is a U.S. national-security concern, reimposes a statutory ban on tourism, and doubles down on a decades‑old economic embargo.”
Ooh — “National Security”! The two most important words in the American political lexicon. Yeah, the Cuban army is right now making preparations to invade Miami. And the Cuban Air Force is getting ready to bomb U.S. nuclear missile sites. And Cuban officials are preparing lesson plans for teaching communism in America’s socialist public (i.e., government) schooling system. And Cuban sharpshooters are already here looking for people to assassinate.
No matter what definition is put on that meaningless, ludicrous ter
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