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These recent events offer the United States a perfect chance to reevaluate our policy towards Cuba a policy that has changed little since Castro took power more than three decades years ago. Unfortunately, the Clinton administration has not availed itself of the opportunity, preferring instead to congratulate itself on its short-term victory and to ignore the larger implications of its myopic foreign policy...
With the exception of the Middle East peace process, the recent confrontation between the United States and Cuba has been President Bill Clinton's only foreign policy success. The administration that couldn't seem to get tough with anyone finally took a stand and forced Castro to back down...
...United States got exactly what it wanted--an end to the flood of over a thousand Cuban refugees streaming toward Florida each day--and none of what it didn't want--drawn-out negotiations regarding the longstanding economic embargo of Cuba...
When Castro first took power in 1960, the Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union was in danger of heating up. Cuba would have made an ideal base for Soviet missiles, and the U.S. policy of isolating Cuba economically and politically was intended to dissuade Castro from cooperating with the Soviets. Also, the embargo was intended to turn the Cuban population against Castro...
...interview with TIME editors today, the chief Cuban negotiator in Friday's agreement over the refugee crisis, Ricardo Alarcon, said the first U.S.-Cuban accord during Fidel Castro's three decades in power provides a toehold on more extensive relations. He said the next step-- if Cuba lives up to its promise to halt the 3,000-a-day refugee flow in return for 20,000 U.S. visas a year--would be talks on lifting the longtime U.S. embargo. U.S. officials downplay the possibility of lifting the three-decade-old embargo. "There is a paradox," the former Cuban Foreign Minister...