Castros sabotage ending U.S. Cuba embargo: Clinton

reuters ^ | 4/9/10 | Reuters

[Nachum]

Clinton said Cuba's response to Obama administration efforts to enhance cooperation revealed "an intransigent, entrenched regime" that had no interest in political reform or ending the isolation imposed by Washington's 48-year old economic embargo on the island.

"It is my personal belief that the Castros do not want to see an end to the embargo and do no want to see normalization with the United States, because they would lose all of their excuses for what hasn't happened in Cuba in the last 50 years," Clinton said

"I find that very sad, because there should be an opportunity for a transition to a full democracy in Cuba and it's going to happen at some point, but it may not happen any time soon."

Obama has said he wants to recast ties that have been hostile since soon after Fidel Castro's 1959 revolution. Fidel Castro stepped aside as president because of illness, with his younger brother Raul formally taking over in 2008.

[Nachum]

The list, ping

[Random Access]

More than likely, the Castro brothers don’t want anything to do with an administration as radically left wing as Obama’s. Even hard core communists have some standards.

[ElectronVolt]

It is my personal belief that the Castros do not want to see an end to the embargo

She's correct, but even a stopped clock is right twice a day, so the clock is ahead of her.

[jtal]

... revealed "an intransigent, entrenched regime" that had no interest in political reform

Paging Captain Obvious!!!

I would like to believe that 0 would learn from this that despots aren't interested in good faith negotiation ... but that would be expecting too much from the World's Smartest Man.

[RepublicanMeansAmerican]

I thought that the Obama administration’s nursery school “play nice” foreign policy strategy would make everything work-out fine and dandy.

[Mr. K]

I can’t believe I agree with her on this.

End the embago... SHOW THE WORLD how communism FAILS and they will nothave the USA as an EXCUSE anymore.

They are able to trade with almost every other country, but some how WE are to blame for their poverty....

[Carl LaFong]

The regime is cynically playing ‘bad cop’ on a relatively safe front to get some ‘tough’ foreign policy cred for the 2010 election to offset their woefully weak actions and image to date.

[Fantasywriter]

“More than likely, the Castro brothers don’t want anything to do with an administration as radically left wing as Obama’s. Even hard core communists have some standards.”

That’s funny. ;)

[UnbelievingScumOnTheOtherSide]

I would have invaded Cuba in 1992 and beaten Clinton/Perot.

[UCFRoadWarrior]

Bad news for all the Liberal Globalists who want to open up “trade” with Cuba......you know this is coming from Clinton....so it must be bad news for the Globalists

[marron]

"It is my personal belief that the Castros do not want to see an end to the embargo and do no want to see normalization with the United States, because they would lose all of their excuses for what hasn't happened in Cuba in the last 50 years,"... "I find that very sad, because there should be an opportunity for a transition to a full democracy in Cuba and it's going to happen at some point, but it may not happen any time soon."

Bingo.

[HD1200]

They finally admit what conservatives have said all along for the last 40 years is right.

[RichInOC]

Hillary, they told Bubba that if he sent the kid back, they’d make a deal with Al, didn’t they? And he believed them.

Sucker.