From the monthly archives: July 2010
The House Foreign Affairs Committee, Terrorism, Nonproliferation, and Trade Subcommittee, held an oversight hearing last week taking a closer look at whether trade partners were doing enough to prevent the spread of “dangerous technologies.” I will save you the time of having to read numerous studies, House and Senate hearing transcripts, and Government [...]
Characterizing recent efforts to ease the travel ban on Cuba as “misguided,” Sen. Robert Menendez (D-New Jersey) delivered one the better speeches in recent memory about U.S. policy toward the Cuban dictatorship and the current human rights situation on the island. While I do not agree with the attacks on U.S. companies, the video is [...]
Of all the absurd things that The Washington Post could report about the Mexican drug cartel wars, today’s above the fold, front page piece on U.S. grenades would have to be it. Resurrecting Cold War-era wounds about how communism was defeated, the Post even managed to make indirect pokes at Ronald Reagan and George H. [...]
Neena Shenai pens in the American Enterprise Institute’s (AEI) National Security Outlook that the “Obama administration must prove its national security bona fides in order to achieve political buy in from the national security community and Congress for its proposed export control reforms.” Well worth a read. Read the article, here.
The House Agriculture Committee approved a bill last week that proposes to ease travel restrictions to Cuba as well as make it easier to sell food and medicine to the regime. Folks in town who support the measure were pleased, no doubt as were the diplomats at the Cuban Interests Section [...]
The recent announcement of a release of a small number of Cuban political prisoners should change nothing with regards to U.S. policy toward the Cuban government. There are thousands of members of the Cuban opposition languishing in Castro’s network of political prisons.
While releasing a few political dissidents may make for good headlines for the regime, especially [...]
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