Allahpundit:
Just three minutes here from today’s speech but it’s pure candy for Cuba hawks, straight out of a Marco Rubio internal monologue and onto the president’s podium. When the man’s right, he’s right, and he’s right about Obama’s Cuba giveaway having been one-sided, particularly in failing to demand human-rights guarantees for Cuban dissidents as part of the deal. The opposition in Cuba has its own political divisions, but per the Miami Herald, they all seem to be on the same page in believing that the U.S. needs to be tougher on the Castro regime than Obama was willing to be:
The leader of Cuba’s largest opposition organization, the Patriotic Union of Cuba (UNPACU), called on Trump to impose sanctions against Castro’s government, just days before the president is expected to make his announcement in Miami on Friday…
Another group of Cuban government opponents launched a petition on the change.org platform to ask Trump to support CubaDecide, a citizen initiative for a plebiscite seeking democratic changes in Cuba.
Obama’s Cuba policy strategy — favoring dialogue and betting on changes promoted by the private sector and not necessarily by dissidents — clearly divided the Cuban opposition. But many now support a policy change that emphasizes human rights and reduces the flow of foreign currency at a critical time for the Cuban government.
That’s exactly what Trump’s policy aims to do — “halt the flow of U.S. cash to the country’s military and security services in a bid to increase pressure on Cuba’s government” — although embassies will remain open and travel between the two countries will go on. Key question: Is he really angling to renegotiate Obama’s deal or is the idea of renegotiation just a fig leaf for returning to the pre-O status quo? If this is a bona fide offer to come to new terms with the regime, he’s starting with a very high ask. Free all political prisoners, he says, recognize freedom of assembly and expression, legalize all political parties, and hold internationally supervised elections if you want sanctions lifted. Essentially he’s asking a police state to stop being a police state. Won’t happen soon, but if he can get one of those things in return for economic relief and make it stick, that might be worth doing. There arebenefits to Cubans potentially in liberalizing relations with the regime. Obama’s mistake was in thinking he could get Castro to soften up with nothing but carrots. Trump is bringing back the stick. For now.
So, Obama can still go to Cuba and sit with oppressive dictators at baseball games?
Look how many mourned the death of Castro dispite how he treated his people he even got Standing Ovations from the Useless Nations and all those wanks who attended his funeral
the radicalized muslin terrorist obama cut a deal the same he did with iran, the question is for how much. castro was a pig and the radicalized muslin terrorist obama love him. oh, was castro gay?