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  1. My attitude has always been what I expect Pope Francis’ attitude likely is, since apparently he’s been involved in brokering this change: Regardless of what it does or does not do to the evil government of Cuba, the embargo ultimately hurts the citizens of Cuba.

    Now, the fault still remains entirely with the government, but the effect is the same.

    I’m not saying I agree with the idea of lifting these sanctions because I understand and agree with why they were created, but as the NY Times said in the part you quoted, they don’t seem to have had much effect on the Castro regime.

    Of course, I also realize the common sense of the WaPo quote, that it has kept Cuba from spreading its evil elsewhere. If the Cuban economy is weak, then Cuba can’t build a military, etc.

    But ultimately it seems that we are punishing the citizens of Cuba and not really causing much pain and discomfort to the dictator in charge.

    The biggest irony, however, when people like Obama, Jimmy Carter and NY Times want to cozy up to the Castros is what former residents of Cuba who have escaped have to say. They have nothing good to say about these evil people, and I’ve heard many times ex-Cubans living in the U.S. expressing shock and fear that the U.S. electorate keeps trying to push us down the same road.

  2. “I’m not sure what’s going on at the WaPo, and I’m not sure whether it will encompass more than this issue (and their excellent reporting on the UVA story), but it’s something.”

    New ownership?

  3. Vanderleun: “New ownership?”

    Who knew Jeff Bezos was anti-Communist? If so, “Go Jeff!”

    I agree wholeheartedly with the WAPO editorial. In fact, I think the “Board” has been reading my mind. Whatever, it’s good stuff.

  4. “But ultimately it seems that we are punishing the citizens of Cuba and not really causing much pain and discomfort to the dictator in charge.”

    The evidence actually points the other way. Decades of Canadian and European tourism has done nothing but line the pockets of the Castros. Why would American trade and money coming in be any different? By lifting any embargo we just assure that the dictators continue their ways. The people of Cuba will always be left out until that government changes. All Obama has done is give the tyrants a new lease on life. How does that help the citizens???

  5. According to Howie Carr, one of the local talk radio hosts, Bezos’ family members were Cuban refugees who escaped Castro. Funny how that influences your thinking.

  6. Paul in Boston:

    Aha, it was a stepfather, who helped raise him:

    Bezos’s mother Jacklyn was a teenager at the time of his birth. Her marriage to his father lasted a little more than a year. When Jeff was four, she remarried, to Miguel Bezos, a Cuban who immigrated to the United States alone when he was fifteen years old. Miguel worked his way through the University of Albuquerque, married Jacklyn and legally adopted his stepson Jeff. After the wedding, the family moved to Houston, Texas, and Miguel became an engineer for Exxon.

  7. Bezos is well known around the Seattle area to be a libertarian. That is perhaps wrong, as he rarely says anything about politics.

    If its correct – it would definitely signal a change in direction – if slowly.

  8. “WE are punishing the citizens of Cuba?” What utter nonsense. The Castro regime is doing the punishing. Just like Putin is punishing Russians. If anyone had any doubts about Obama (Fool or Knave?) how about something along the lines of, Oh, say, “traitorous slimeball.” Just imagine the ass-kissing, obsequeous lounge Marxists Obama will be sending to Cuba as the cutting edge of American “diplomacy.” And now, of course, we will hear the media engaging in another round of rapture over “free health care” and “literacy.” Read or re-read Michael Totten everyone.

  9. no end until every inch of stolen property is returned to its rightful owners, with interest and any european corporation that illegally built on that land be prosecuted.

  10. G Joubert,

    All former icons provide traction when thrown under the bus. These are not the JFK era democrats of the past, they hate America and will trash previous ‘heroes’ to push the agenda of destruction.

  11. The change in WaPo is real and is certainly linked to the change in ownership. Bezos can see that WaPo was going down the toilet if it didn’t find a way to differentiate itself from NYT. The paper seems to be trying to find the middle ground between NYT and WSJ. One could see this coming when Bezos gave Little Ezra Klein the boot.

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