Highly Recommended: This column by Ray Walser of the Heritage Foundation. An excerpt:
This prolonged contest has pitted a team of weary, geopolitical lightweights against a far more powerful but frequently distracted opponent. Victory for the republic appears imminent. But spectators in the stands of the republic have grown impatient and want to rush the field. They seek to tear down the goal posts before victory is achieved…
Paradoxically, there appears to be greater enthusiasm in some quarters of the U.S. for jettisoning the Cuba embargo than for sustaining the North American Free Trade Agreement with Canada and Mexico.