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How Do Dictatorships Fall?
Asked about Obama’s foreign policy achievements, his defenders always trot out Cuba as a historic diplomatic success. In their minds, the re-establishment of relations with that small, impoverished, long-suffering dictatorship falls somewhere between Commodore Perry’s breaking down the door to Japan in 1853 and Nixon’s China gambit on the Richter scale of statesmanship.
The mantra of our Cuba policy objectives is “a rapid, peaceful transition to democracy.” According to our State Department: