President’s Obama announcement on Cuba is indicative of three important elements; first, while the president is handicapped by the existence of a Republican-dominated Congress, he is definitely capable of darling foreign policy initiatives. Second, the president is not so passive in the field of foreign policy as his adversaries, both in and out of the US, tend to portray him. Third, Cuba has its own good reasons to search for an historic reconciliation with the US, but there is a strong case to be made that timing, at least of the new situation, was influenced by the sense that Vladimir …read more
Source: The Huffington Post
