Three Ways Bush Makes Castro Happy

Three Ways Bush Makes Castro Happy
By Ann Louise Bardach
It's unlikely that Fidel Castro could have conjured up a more satisfying scenario for himself than the latest chapter in that sorry tangle that passes for U.S.-Cuba policy.

Nor could he have confected a better scheme for diverting attention from Cuba's crushing economic woes and its growing ranks of dissidents.

Consider the justice dispensed to three Cubans: a fugitive wanted for terrorism, a distinguished military scholar and a popular crooner.

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All of which raises a few sobering questions: Is the administration capable of assessing authentic security risks in its war on terrorism? Can it distinguish between actual threats and political enemies? And finally, can it devise a policy toward Latin America that doesn't serve up frothy propaganda for the strongmen of Cuba and Venezuela?

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