I've long considered the continued embargo a mere act of stubborn pride on behalf of a government that can't abide the repeated humiliations they've suffered every time they've tried to deal with Castro. 'Why can't we just put this one little man in a little country right off our own shores in his place? And yet he outmaneuvers us every time.' It will take a little more political maturity (or Fidel's death, which will almost certainly come first) to end the embargo. I hadn't thought of the sugar and Cuban expatriate lobbies, though they make perfect sense, and make the issue sadly more complicated--not the issue of what should be done, but the issue of whether it will be.

Ajax