Will Trump Complete JFK's Goal of a Free Cuba?

[John Corbett]

...as people senselessly die in Cuba.

As opposed to dying senselessly in Ukraine. We can't cure all the world's troubles. We have to pick and choose our battles.

Invading Cuba would be a huge mistake. It is on the verge of economic collapse. We've put up with the regime since 1960. What's a few more months or a few more years.

If the Cuban people can't wait for that, then let them overthrow their regime. There are signs that might be happening already. We just need to be patient.

Castro came to power in a popular uprising. There's no reason that can't happen again.

[Benjamin Cole]

MC:

Given that Cuba has indisputably devolved into a thug state, with endless misery for its residents...is some short-term pain worth permanent gain?

Why do leftists in Western liberal democracies examine the US for every possible shortcoming, imagined or otherwise, and then turn into abject simps when it comes to Havana, Tehran or Moscow?

I think JFK would have assassinated/overthrown the Cuba commie party out of existence in his second term. JFK vowed as much.

[Michael Capasse]

It's a deliberate humanitarian crisis caused by the US
...pushing us to the edge.

[Benjamin Cole]

MC--

But is that a bad strategy?

Marco Rubio, a Cubano, and one could assume sympathetic to Cubans, appears to be running the show.

What is a better plan for ending the Castro regime (60 years after JFK wanted to, but better late than never).

[Joe Elliott]

No. Cuba will remain a dictatorship. Maybe under a different dictator, but certainly a dictator. Trump would prefer a dictator. If by some miracle, Cuba became an early, fragile democracy, Trump will do something about it.

[John Corbett]

MC:

I think JFK would have assassinated/overthrown the Cuba commie party out of existence in his second term. JFK vowed as much.

I don't think so. That would have violated the agreement we made to end the Cuban Missile Crisis. We came damn close to Armageddon in 1962. JFK wasn't going to go down that road again.

[Benjamin Cole]

JC:

Watch the Miami speech by JFK that I uploaded--JFK publicly vowed, in that speech made in December of 1962, after the CMC, that the Cuban exiles' flag would fly over a "Free Havana."

The Kennedy brothers were working several levers through 1963, from Castro assassination plots, to fomenting internal divisions in Cuba. They were hard core on Cuba. They were again developing more-substantive plans, while curtailing rogue amateur-ops by Cuban exiles  All that stopped suddenly with JFK's assassination.

LBJ curiously lost interest, seemingly entirely, in Cuba. And there it has stood since.

Interesting topic.

Well, let us hope Trump-Rubio can win the day this time around.

A Free Cuba, and a Free Iran, would be tremendous accomplishments.