Word: castros
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Cuba policy has accomplished nothing less than to encourage the people of this country to accept--almost to trust in--an eventual invasion of the island, so forcing politicians to make "hard" or "soft" attitudes toward Castro an enormously significant political issue. In an election year, when the powers that be are touchy and the powers that would like to be measure fierce accusations of columny and impotence lightly, the U.S. is alarmingly susceptible to warlike recommendations. The present temper of the Congress and of the press holds the very real capacity to bully the Administration into a stupidly aggressive...
Obviously, the Administration would have ditched such a policy long ago if it supposed there was nothing to gain by it. Merely upsetting Castro at the cost of helping to impoverish the Cuban people is a sour sort of accomplishment. What the State Department is presumably trying to do is to make of Cuba a laboratory model to show Latin America that a socialist economy cannot decently survive. The trouble is that everybody knows that the U.S. has so restricted the possibility of development on the island--in fact has so narrowly defined the terms of the experiment--that...
...country's determination to fight. The chance remains for him to try to show--in a television address--that the stakes of the Cuban issue are war itself, too important to be sacrificed to an essentially pettish desire for revenge and even to the U.S.' understandable distaste for Castro's regime...
...objectives of rapprochement, to repeat, are essentially to diminish the ideological connotations of Castro's Cuba, to make it less of an issue. They are to put an end to an experiment in economic theory that can scarcely prove anything even to ourselves, and that, since it can never succeed, continues to throw our people and our politicians into a state of tense frustration empty of reasonableness, respect for facts, or sense of proportion...
Monroe v. Castro...