Foreign Policy

The Cuban embargo hurts innocent Cuban people most of all.

"According to the CIA’s Worldbook, Cuba has 1,047,251 inhabitants. A probing mathematic analysis, the only kind I undertake, would suggest that one of them is Castro, and 1,047,250 are not. Thus when frothing Republicans and Cuban impostures impose an embargo, they inflict grave damage on innocent people. The one person the embargo does not hurt is Fidel Castro. Can even the midget Talleyrands of Washington believe that because of the embargo Fidel cannot get sirloin and Jack Daniels ?
The embargo is the mean-spirited vengeance on the wrong people by a Washington miffed because Fidel beat them. He was a monster, yes, but Washington has never shown a disposition to avoid the company of monsters. Thing is, he won, and he made clowns of the CIA—or more correctly was a bystander as they made fools of themselves. This Washington cannot forgive."

A lot of clownishness in Washington.

"If Washington had any decency, or if the pseudo-Cubans of Miami did, or if Washington intelligently wanted to bring los Castro down, or if it wanted to give American businesses a nice little market, I would drop the damned embargo. The island has all the requisites for being a super-conducting tourist magnet—exoticism, but not too much; safety, very low crime, glorious beaches, climate, proximity. It also has a highly educated workforce that needs work, which might appeal to businessmen.
But no. Pseudo-Cubes vote Republican, and all those senators with the flat spots on their heads don’t like Fidel." 

A lot of meanness too.