Another Castro thought

I am back. I am pre-empting the funniness of the Dayton Chronicles for another thought on Castro. I am sorry for this AND I feel I must do it in any event. I actually have to see where I left off with the Dayton story. I do know that the funniest is yet to come.

I have to hand it to the Americans and their Cuba policy. It fucking worked. They set up their trade embargo against Fidel Castro to effect regime change. It worked. Castro has stepped down. I never thought that I would say this, but the Americans really took the long view here (something that seems odd for a nation that favored expediency over all in their foreign policy....or so it would seem). With Cuba, they took that long view.

It took 49 years for their policy to work, but work it did damn it. Fidel is done.

So kids, it all goes to show, that if you slavishly follow bad policy long enough, time creeps along and solves the whole issue for you. In the immortal words of John Kenneth Galbraith (or was it John Maynard Keynes)(it was some dead economist who was not of the Chicago or Austrian schools), "in the long run, we are all dead." That was US official policy on Cuba. Just wait them out....forever, if that is how long it took.

Makes my head spin. Where are the fucking pragmatists when you need them? Is there nobody out there that can speak any sense? Obviously, not!

Now, before I take my leave here for today, let me say that I am not knocking America. I am knocking all those who set this Cuba policy and slavishly kept it up without regard to whether it worked, how it worked or really looking to see if the context had changed, and perhaps come up with something new, to get the desired result. No, none of that here. Just make the fucking square peg fit in the round hole.

I see enough of that on the home front, I do not need to see it writ large in larger issues of which I have no control.

Ciao!