That is even worse. Treat 11 million cubans as pawns in international geopolitics. I sure hope your state department days are past.
Just as bad, or worse: treating 11 million Cubans as pawns in US domestic politics.
I'll be delighted as the next guy when Castro - and communism - are gone from Cuba.
But I think the overriding US goal should be the the establishment of a stable, democratic government there, and that a lot of the likely political program of the more radical exiles want would almost certainly end up making that more difficult to achieve.