Bush came along, striking down the military commission system in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba (Gitmo). … , the Court bent over backwards to explain why Gitmo was different from Germany, saying that Gitmo was a century-long lease from Cuba … U.S. bases in Afghanistan are more like those in Germany than Cuba.…
Matthews' moral language is reminiscent more of his presidential foe than The One who energizes his leg thrills. He loses me with the nutter "Truther" JFK/Oswald rhetoric, but quickly recovers.
But his newly announced Cuba policy is mostly more of the same. … That is our Cuba policy. … His most notable alteration is segregating our Cuba policy by national origin.…
The political and human-rights situation in Cuba is grim enough already. … (The likes of China, Russia and Iran might also look to partner with a revitalized Cuba.) … Regrettably, 110 years after independence from Spain (courtesy of Uncle Sam), Cuba still isn't free.…
WASHINGTON -- Barack Obama's decision to allow unlimited travel by Cuban-Americans to visit family members in Cuba is a smart, long-overdue … Only 21 percent opposed any change toward Cuba. … But Obama senses an emerging change of heart among Cuban-Americans toward opening up economic ties in Cuba.…
. -- returned from a visit to Cuba where they met with the dictators of Cuba, Fidel and Raul Castro. … The Miami Herald labeled the seven members of the CBC who went to Cuba, “The Clueless Seven”
The Herald’s scathing editorial continued…
In that context, the implied promise was that a President Obama could do business with Cuba, Venezuela, Nicaragua and other countries … The President wants to be seen as someone that can contend with Cuba, Venezuala and Nicaragua.…
clear in 2007 during a Democratic candidate’s debate that, as President, he would meet with the dictators of Iran, North Korea, Cuba … dictator of Venezuela, and once again sending their troops to engage in “military exercises” in our hemisphere, along the shores of Cuba…
went too far for the Cuban communist pirates when he said at the Summit of the Americas, “Washington seeks a new beginning with Cuba … , but … Cuba should release some political prisoners and reduce official taxes on remittances from the U.S. as a sign of good will” … The 10 percent fee is a pirates’ tax on dollars that heretofore have found their way into Cuba.…
In defending President Obama's easing of U.S. policy towards Cuba, Sen. Richard J. … Durbin, Illinois Democrat, remarked this week: "I had some friends who recently went to Cuba, through Mexico, with a visa. … they knew and could see what modern agriculture could bring to them ... we would have a greater chance of bringing real 'change' to Cuba…
Ah, yes, because the pressing issue is Obama's blamelessness, not the apparently embarrassing faux pas of America's effort to rid Cuba … Street Journal's Dan Henninger asked a former Eastern European dissident imprisoned by Communists: "If you were sitting in a cell in Cuba…
It’s why refugees risk all to get here from Cuba, but nobody is swimming from here to get there. Go look. … You can almost see Cuba from the southernmost tip at Key West, Florida.…
Lifting restrictions on travel and remittances to Cuba. … In 1961, the year Obama was born, Cuba was a central preoccupation of American foreign policy. … Today, Cuba (population 11 million) is not a major problem.…
After Daniel Ortega finished spitting in our face, accusing us of inhumanity toward Fidel Castro's Cuba, Obama was asked his thoughts … Thus the nation that won the Cold War, contained the cancer of Castroism in Cuba, liberated Grenada, blocked communist takeovers of … Clinton said ... that the uncompromising policy of the Bush administration toward Cuba had not worked. ...…
