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...entire campaign—victorious. But aside from the immediate political ramifications, McCain’s remark succeeded in making one thing clear: American policy toward Cuba is woefully out of date. In the transformative spirit of the 2008 election, President Obama should significantly revise our relationship with the reclusive island by lifting the embargo and re-establishing diplomatic relations...
...Moreover, there is a strong geopolitical argument for dropping the embargo: the re-emergence of the Russian Federation as a global power. Russia’s prime minister, Vladimir Putin, has made restoring a close strategic relationship with Cuba a priority in Moscow. This alone should be more than enough evidence that the embargo is counterproductive. In 1962, the world watched with bated breath as Kennedy and Khrushchev faced off in the Caribbean, and many historians today recognize that the Cuban Missile Crisis was the closest that the world had ever come to nuclear holocaust...
...Ossetia last summer and the Bush administration’s plan to construct a NATO-backed missile defense shield in Poland and the Czech Republic are just two reminders of how tense Russo-American relations have become in the post-Soviet era. Instead of encouraging further tension in this relationship by fixating on the ideological character of the Castro regime, it is imperative that the United States defuse tensions in the Caribbean and limit the Kremlin’s opportunities to stir up trouble in our southern backyard...
...soap opera. That would be Sam Adams, the new mayor of Portland and the first openly gay man to lead a major American city. Then there's Bob Ball, an openly gay local real estate developer who once had mayoral ambitions himself. In 2007, Ball hinted that Adams' mentoring relationship with a former legislative intern, Beau Breedlove (now 21), was, in fact, a sexual one that had begun when the young man was just 17. (See the top 10 scandals...
...believe what I said was, 'You're a f___ing moron,'" says Wiener. "I was, and am, pissed and saddened by it." Another former ally, Randy Leonard, one of Portland's four city commissioners, was also dismayed, not least because Adams' story kept changing. His original version, a mentoring relationship, became a romantic liaison that the mayor insisted didn't become sexual until after Breedlove turned 18, the age of legal consent in Oregon. But in an interview published on Jan. 25 in the Oregonian, Breedlove suggested that he shared a passionate kiss with Adams in a city-hall bathroom...