Ted Cruz: Cuba Relations Thaw ‘a Tragic Mistake’

Texas Republican senator Ted Cruz panned the Obama administration’s decision to open up relations with the communist Caribbean nation of Cuba, saying the move will be regarded as “a tragic mistake” by future generations.

A Cuban-American whose father left the nation in the 1950s, Cruz seemed disgusted by the thaw in relations between the United States and Cuba. 

“This is yet another manifestation of the failures of the Obama-Clinton-Kerry foreign policy,” the senator said on Fox News Wednesday. “This announcement today will be remembered as a tragic mistake.”

Cruz said Cuba had been “struggling, it was gasping for air” economically, relying on a weak Venezuelan government to help prop them up. “Just like the administration did with Iran, right when the administration was feeling the maximum pain it throws them an economic lifeline and continues the brutal repression and dictatorship of the Castro brothers,” the senator said.

The senator explained that Cuba has antagonized the U.S. for decades and argued that the Obama administration was now trying to “blame America” for the toxic relationship.

“The Castros are the ones who have decided to be brutal, repressive dictators,” Cruz said. “And we should not be taking blame for the fact that we responded to their active acts of war and hostility.”

http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/394925/ted-cruz-cuba-relations-thaw-tragic-mistake-brendan-bordelon

Krauthammer’s Cuba Take: ‘Is There No Tyrant in the World Obama Will Not Appease for Nothing?’

Conservative columnist Charles Krauthammer lamented the Obama administration’s decision to open formal relations with Cuba on Wednesday, pegging it as part of a broader trend and wondering whether there’s any tyrannical or anti-American regime to whom he won’t grant one-sided concessions.

On Fox News’s Special Report, Krauthammer explained how even President Obama himself once understood that the embargo against Cuba was designed as leverage to push Cuban democratization. “There was not an ounce, there was not an inch, there was not a suggestion of an opening here,” he said. 

The columnist noted that time and again — from Russia and missile defense to Iran and nuclear sanctions — the Obama administration seems determined to surrender in negotiations with autocratic regimes.

“Is there no tyrant or anti-American center in the world that Obama will not appease for nothing in return?” Krauthammer asked. “If you get something in return I’d be willing to listen. I haven’t seen anything.”

http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/394938/krauthammers-cuba-take-there-no-tyrant-world-obama-will-not-appease-nothing-nro-staff

http://dailysurge.com/2014/12/obama-just-used-executive-powers-cuban-dictators-bidding/

http://www.jammiewf.com/2014/imbecile-john-kerry-cuba-policy-has-isolated-united-states-for-50-years/