Obama's concessory initiative has nothing to do with the Cuban people or democracy.
Its real purpose is twofold: To discountenance 50 years of U.S. foreign policy and its advocates and demoralize their followers (us), on the one hand, and on the other, to destroy George Bush's favorite pickling-jar for jihadi dead-enders who are beyond all human reach, by dispossessing the United States of a nonterritorial place to hold such jihadis beyond the reach of Communist lawyers and high-priced defense-bar pleaders of the ilk of F. Lee Bailey, Johnnie Cochrane, Lanny Davis, Plato Cacheris, and Robert "Uncle Bob" Bennett.
The idea that there was anything but malice and serious, impeachable mischief behind Obama's actions is pathetically ingenuous and unworthy of people who've had 100 years to learn the nature of the social disease that has been rasping the guts out of European civilization and American society, and which now is entrenched in the White House.
Obama has stepped in just as Venezuela ran out of gas.
It’s remarkable for the Compost to get this far, either way.