Nothing much to see here; Chavez postures, the Russians posture, and perhaps a few lucky bomber pilots and ground crewmen get extended vacations to Venezuela. Here's the most interesting bit:Cuban authorities made no comment last summer when a Moscow newspaper reported that Russia could send...
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There's rather less to this article than I would have liked, or supposed. While I would prefer that John McCain and Joe Lieberman give the same kind of righteous, full-throated.
This has to be a joke:Russian bombers capable of carrying nuclear weapons could be deployed to Cuba in response to U.S. plans to install a missile defense system in Eastern.
Randy Paul helpfully explains why Castro is bad even if he led only the 34th worst regime since 1900. Police state dictatorships are never particularly admirable; it seems to me that US policy should in general be that the institutions of such regimes ought to...
Forty-nine years, and ten American presidents. I have to suspect that he's very near the end, or else would have tried to push through to next January. It's worth noting.
Via Yglesias, Rodger Payne gives some solid reasons for preferring Obama to Clinton on Cuba policy:Last summer, however, Obama wrote an op-ed for the Miami Herald calling for the US.
The President on Cuba:President Bush is planning to issue a stern warning Wednesday that the United States will not accept a political transition in Cuba in which power changes from one Castro brother to another, rather than to the Cuban people.As described by an official...