Posted here Saturday, June 26, 2004 at 10:13:20 PM 
I lok at the curent harshness of Bush/Cheney posturing and worry that there will emerge an opportunity to reignite the commander in chief role - prime candidates are numerous: cuba, venezuela, Iran, and potentially Pakistan. There are others of course, Korea, Taiwan, ...
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/06/27/opinion/27SUN1.html
The toughened policy, which cynically victimizes families, will backfire over time. Polls show that about half the Cuban-American community in Florida resents the intrusive new sanctions. But this split within the Cuban-American community has not yet registered at the polls, because those advocating a tougher embargo are older, from the waves of exiles who arrived in the United States in the 1960's and 1970's, and are far more likely to vote. They are offended that supposed political exiles feel free to go back and forth to their old country. In many cases, they can afford to feel that way because they are less likely to have close relatives still in Cuba. When the more recently arrived Cuban-Americans become a political force in Florida, the odds of a more effective American policy toward Havana will increase substantially.
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