Source: The American Conservative
by Ted Snider
“On January 25, 1960, President Dwight D. Eisenhower proposed a U.S. naval ‘quarantine’ of Cuba. ‘If they are hungry,’ the president fumed, ‘they will throw Castro out.’ His ambassador to Cuba, Philip W. Bonsal, chided him with a moral reminder: ‘We should not punish the whole Cuban people for the acts of one abnormal man.’ If it was hard for the U.S. to hear that restraint then, it has become deaf to it now. For over 65 years, U.S. policy has been to employ an embargo to pressure Cuba until the regime collapses. … Despite the decades of economic and personal suffering, the policy has failed. The embargo has brought Cuba misery but not regime change. And yet, in the absence of a more promising plan, the Trump administration seems intent on simply intensifying the current plan. The result will not be regime change but more suffering.” (02/13/26)
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/trumps-cuba-policy-is-a-humanitarian-disaster/