Actions Speak Louder Than Words

Marco Rubio's headlining of Jeff Flake's rally is a supreme act of hypocrisy.

Flake has got to be the worst Republican in the Senate, if not all of Congress, on enabling the Castro regime. Rubio claims to be Trump's great foreign policy influence on Cuba specifically and other Latin American countries, and yet he is empowering the senator who has been inimical to GOP's efforts to counter Obama's shameful and self-serving normalization with Castro.

I don't know whether FLake honestly believed that policy would actually lead to liberalization. If so, he should have issued an unqualified apology for his naive delusion. On the other hand, if he was doing that out of some cynical political calculations, or perhaps out of personal interest in investments, he deserves to be thoroughly condemned for taking that unconscionable position.

And Rubio should be ashamed of himself for supporting and enabling Flake and his harmful role in our foreign policy. How can we expect to take him seriously on Cuba or human rights after he is whole-heartedly supporting someone who took a position identical to Obama, and which Rubio claims to condemn?

The Cuba Non-Response Response

The US has taken certain security precautions in response to the ongoing trouble for diplomats in Cuba, namely
1) cutting staff by 60% to leave only "emergency" personnel (what, they are not people?)
2) warning Americans not to travel to Cuba
3) moving visa applications for Cuban visitors to nearby countries
and
4) stopping official delegations to Cuba, though receiving diplomatic visits in the US.

You know what US hasn't done? Assigned any sort of responsibility to the Castro regime for allowing Americans to be repeatedly and continuously attacked on Cuban soil