And what does this move represent?

[Snowball 2]

Bush Proposes a Plan to Aid Opponents of Castro in Cuba

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/05/07/politics/07cuba.html

Another move geared to gain Florida votes? Who knows. Can't say I oppose it. The one point that caught me though seems a bit confusing. Channeling resources for the wrong reasons?

But critics countered that the Treasury Department, which enforces economic sanctions, is already spending an inordinate amount of time on Cuba, largely in response to domestic political pressure. Of the 120 employees at the Office of Foreign Assets Control, Senator Baucus said, 21 are dedicated to enforcing the Cuba embargo and only 4 to tracking the finances of Osama bin Laden and Saddam Hussein.

I don't quite understand that. What makes Castro a higher priority?

[enduser]

Bush Proposes a Plan to Aid Opponents of Castro in Cuba

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/05/07/politics/07cuba.html

Another move geared to gain Florida votes? Who knows. Can't say I oppose it. The one point that caught me though seems a bit confusing. Channeling resources for the wrong reasons?

I don't quite understand that. What makes Castro a higher priority?

I would rather see Castro left in power and don't want to see a mass exodus of Cubans entering this country.

[Radun]

with what's going on in haiti, if both countries had an exodus to the USA, they could make gangs like in GTA3 Vice City!!!!!!!!!!! and stuff

[otoc]

Bush Proposes a Plan to Aid Opponents of Castro in Cuba
I don't quite understand that. What makes Castro a higher priority?

Perhaps it has something to do with this interview of the day:
http://us.gq.com/plus/content/?040429plco_01
"I call them utopians," he (Wilkerson, of Colin Powell's staff regarding Rumsfeld's staff) said. "I don't care whether utopians are Vladimir Lenin on a sealed train to Moscow or Paul Wolfowitz. Utopians, I don't like. You're never going to bring utopia, and you're going to hurt a lot of people in the process of trying to do it."

"It's politically incorrect for me to say so," he added, "but when all you use is a stick, you're not going to get very far." He used the example of Pakistan. "The problem is, you sanction Pakistan, you lay all this stuff on Pakistan, the Pressler Amendment, and so forth, and then all of a sudden Pakistan does a nuclear test in '98. But if you stay involved with them and you keep working on them and you keep at it, over and over and over again, keep seeing what's successful and what's a failure and emphasizing what's successful, doing more of it, and quit doing what's a failure, then you can make more progress than if you just sanction somebody and walk off and say, 'That's it, I'm not dealing with you anymore.' "

"It hasn't worked in Cuba for forty years," I said.

"Dumbest policy on the face of the earth," he said. "It's crazy."

Perhaps that's why we can't understand why Castro takes priority over terror.

[Snowball 2]

Uh-oh, I smell regime change

Bush's future speech: "Since the UN won't move on it the US must. Cuba represents a growing threat to our cigar industry and may become a "terrourist" location. Senior Al Qaeda operatives have been vacationing there for years and we fear they may be setting up a training camp at the "Shake Ya Booty" nite club. We must act now and we must act decisevly."

[otoc]

Uh-oh, I smell regime change

Bush's future speech: "Since the UN won't move on it the US must. Cuba represents a growing threat to our cigar industry and may become a "terrourist" location. We must act now and we must act decisevly."

Bout time, too! I'm tired of feeling like a criminal when I light up a Cuban cigar to enjoy with a single malt.

[Shadowmage]

Lol, those presidents never learn do they? :P

*cough*Bay of Pigs*cough*

[Nobody1]

Lol, those presidents never learn do they? :P

*cough*Bay of Pigs*cough*

Except back then we had to worry about a Soviet response, entirely different scenario if true.