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I propose the following as a test of the current truisms that Russia has abandoned the Soviet past and that the PRC are only a "strategic competitor:"

1. Immediate cruise missile strikes on Cuban military facilities.

2. Several weeks of B-52 raids on suspected bio-war facilities and critical C4I facilities (including Lourdes).

3. Naval blockade.

My thesis is that if the Cold War really ended in 1991, then no one will help Cuba, and, we'll be able to at long last depose Castro and ensure the development of a responsible regime reflective of Cuba's Spanish roots and innate (e.g. if not terrorised by autocratic Communist totalitarianism) Western, Euro-Carribean orientation. And if the ChiCOMs and supposedly reborn Russians come to the aid of Cuba, then we'll have smoked out some folks who were simply stringing us along. This is what is known as the antitdote to appeasement and Neville Chamberlainism...

Connect the dots.... awaken the giant...

As for a test of Russia's abandonment of communism and cold war hatred, I would go even further, asking Russia to help the US in imposing a political settlement with Cuba and US weapons inspectors with full access to Cuba's infrastructures (not just UN inspectors because there it is US territory directly that those purely offensive bio-weapons target). But Russia is fundamentaly opposed to political settlements until Russia's friends get their a$$es kicked and they need to be saved. Just ask them to let the Cuban exiles to recoup their losses and to reacquire their assets, and you will see how that goes with Russia's own oligarch. Of course, such weapons inspection would have to occur with some form of US military presence in the region, possibly including nuke strikes on offensive bio-facilities if a rebellion against the resolution occured on the island.

If nations want to build weapons that target effectively America, then those nations' business becomes America's business. There is no going around the need to prevent others from leveraging US politics with pointing their weapons at us. It is one thing to have a defensive force and sovereign militarisation, it is another to constantly acquire America as a target. Purely offensive bio and Chem weapons combined with Castro's overimaginative hatred of America and political vigilatism definitely fit that bill. Moreover, the fate of the Cuban exiles in Florida make the demands even more stringent on Cuba, including forcing the communist oligarch of Cuba to forego their ill acquired assets. After all, it all stems from that unresolved aggression that continues today.

1. Immediate cruise missile strikes on Cuban military facilities. 2. Several weeks of B-52 raids on suspected bio-war facilities and critical C4I facilities (including Lourdes). 3. Naval blockade. My thesis is that if the Cold War really ended in 1991, then no one will help Cuba, and, we'll be able to at long last depose Castro and ensure the development of a responsible regime reflective of Cuba's Spanish roots and innate (e.g. if not terrorised by autocratic Communist totalitarianism) Western, Euro-Carribean orientation. And if the ChiCOMs and supposedly reborn Russians come to the aid of Cuba, then we'll have smoked out some folks who were simply stringing us along. This is what is known as the antitdote to appeasement and Neville Chamberlainism...

Excellent idea. I have been supporting a US invasion of Cuba to liberate it from Communist control for the last 17 years. Cuba is a rogue state. It is also the primary state-sponsor of terror in the Western Hemisphere. Back in the mid-1980s, it was cited as one of the two main centers of terrorism in the world--the other being the PLO. If Bush wants to be true to his supposed "war on terrorism", he would support a blockade or bombing of Cuban military sites as you advocate. Of course, we all know that his war on terrorism is deeply lacking in moral clarity. Bush and Powell supported Arafat and his terrorist PLO for nearly 18 months before finally giving up on him. They tried to recruit the largest state sponsor of terror, the Islamic Republic of Iran into the "anti-terror" coalition and have done the same with terrorist state sponsors Syria and Sudan which has committed genocide against black Christians whom it also enslaves. Yet, paradoxically, the ChiCom supported government of Sudan has been praised by Bush-Powell for its cooperation in the "war against terror", which is pretty funny since the Sudanese government is itself led by terrorists. This is the kind of crap we have come to expect from the Bush-Powell foreign policy of appeasing terrorist and Communist states. Perhaps a new conservative Secretary of State would help Bush get back on track. Undersecretary John Bolton would likely be a marked improvement over the liberal globalist appeaser Colin Powell.