Calling Walt, Mearsheimer: Time to look at the Cuba Lobby

Although I’m rather suspicious of all the Obama-as-Messiah slavering one sees these days, it is true that in some policy areas he offers a better approach than Hillary Clinton. One obvious example is Cuba. Hillary, for reasons best known to herself but doubtless involving trimming and calculation and a determination to leave no opening any opponents – even the mad ones – could try and exploit, seems to think that current US policy towards the island is dandy.

Actually I suspect that Clinton must know that the current US approach to Cuba – which involves cracking down even on family travel to the island to the extent that, as others have suggested, Cubans must choose between attending their mother’s funeral or their father’s – is daft and just the latest counter-productive US policy towards Castro. If she doesn’t know this she doesn’t deserve her party’s nomination, let alone the Presidency; if she does know it she’s prepared to sacrifice decency, common sense and the future of the Cuban people themselves on an altar of vindictive, blind stupidity.