Bush to Warn

Cuba on Plan for Transition - New York Times

"...John Kavulich, senior policy adviser at the U.S.-Cuba Trade andEconomic Council, said those demands would likely be non-starters for Cuba. He said the technology and educational opportunities Mr. Bush intends to offer are (already) being provided to Cuba by Venezuela and China. He suggested that the real constituency for Mr. Bush’s speech was the politically-powerful exile community in Miami."

Duh! Do you think so?

The world has dozens more oppressive regimes than this one. But we like to do business with them. There is only one reason to act like a bully with Cuba; to gather votes for the party faithful in Florida.

"...American policy, he said, had been centered around the idea that the Communist government would fall once Mr. Castro left power, and that Mr. Castro, 81, would be forced out of power only by death. Instead, Mr. Peters said, Raúl Castro’s rise caught the administration off guard."

What hasn't caught the administration off guard? Natural disasters to political disasters, everything seems to surprise them.