Politics and Culture

The LA Times has some of the most wrong articles this week. First, lets deal with this editorial from the LA Times:

Regardless of the political implications, Obama is clearly right -- the only problem is, his proposal doesn't go far enough. The travel ban should be lifted for everybody, not just Cuban immigrants. It is the height of irony that Americans can freely travel to countries such as Venezuela and Iran, which represent genuine threats to our security and economic interests, but not to Cuba, whose government is a threat only to its own people. The ban has done nothing to weaken Castro, but it does keep U.S. tourist dollars out of the hands of Cubans, who might be less inclined to heed their regime's anti-U.S. propaganda if Americans were helping to raise their standard of living.

The embargo wasn't implemented to force a change on the island. It was put in place as a reaction to Castro's theft of U.S. property. Justice demands that we keep the embargo in place until Castro returns what belongs to American citizens. Once that's done (democracy wouldn't hurt either), then we can talk.

Castro can also let Cuban citizens travel to the United States if the families want to see each other so bad.

We don't need Cuba. Americans can get drunk, swim at the beach, and find hookers at travel destinations throughout the world.