MORE REGIME CHANGING

James Joyner · Saturday, May 3, 2003 · 4 Comments

I missed this one yesterday: James Taranto argues in WSJ that we should strongly consider an Iraq-style regime change in Cuba. His rationale: Castro is a meanie and it wouldn’t be that hard. Now, while I agree that Castro is a pretty despicable character and that toppling him would likely come at a lower price than ridding ourselves of Saddam, I really hate it when opinion mongers start declaring war on everybody. Can’t we at least restrict our wars to countries that pose some military threat to us?

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John Lemon says:

Saturday, May 3, 2003 at 19:46

Good point. On to Canada!

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PoliBlogger says:

Saturday, May 3, 2003 at 21:00

Indeed on Canada!

And, contrary to the opinion of many in Republican circles, I think that lifting the embargo on Cuba would hasten regime change, and make life better for the Cubans. Right now the embargo is hardly hurting Fidel.

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John Lemon says:

Sunday, May 4, 2003 at 12:09

Agreed. I am pretty much opposed to embargoes and have been for decades. I think the Cuban ex-pat community in Miami is starting to split on the issue of the embargo as well.

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J.Pond says:

Sunday, May 4, 2003 at 22:59

This gets me angry as well. It seems that there are several op-ed writers that want to change every bad regine in the world. Let’s hope that no one in power listens to them.

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