[katana]

I sincerely doubt that a couple articles by two useful idiots is going to make El Jefe lose any sleep at all. The crackdown of the past couple months is like so many others before it, designed to elicit the appropriate hard response from us.

For forty plus years this has been like an extended experiment by Pavlov, Castro says or does something outrageous and we clamp down or cancel whatever reduction in the embargo is being considered. This kind of thing will continue as long as Fidel is drawing breath. Bush and his team may be capable of breaking the cycle, but how they would go about doing so isn't exactly clear to me.

[Cincinatus' Wife]

It will take action. If nothing changes it will be as you said. We act nice, he acts bad. We act "bad"
he acts bad. There is no dealing with someone who likes his slave island, thank you very much, and will never allow anyone to call his revolution, his life, what it is, a brutal, wasted, murderous one.

[skinkinthegrass]

Castro can AWAYS count on the Liberals to bail him out...what are for for.