New Blogs I found that I like

Well, today I stumbled across some actually liberal bloggers! And not ones that piss me off by being "Loony Left" pacifists, either (though I don't think they're as Hawkish as I am). Here are the links: Eschaton and his pal Silt. Go read them!

Carter Goes to Cuba and Dubya Toughens Stance

So, Pres. Carter heads to Cuba in the interest of warming relations between the island and the United States. At nearly the same time, Shrubya announces that he's toughening his stance on Cuba. Partisan politics? Here? As usual. Carter visited a biotech institute, apparently. A biotech institute, for Heaven's sake! If they can afford to research that kind of technology, then I don't think we're gaining anything through isolating them. Now, I'm too young to know exactly why everybody hates Castro... is it "just" because he's a Communist ex-puppet of the Soviet Union? Or did he do some particularly horrifying things entirely on his own? If it's the latter (and I suspect it's actually both), then he deserves to be treated like a horrifying dictator... but it's too late now. Having decided to pursue the strategy of "wait until he dies" for so long, it's probably better now just to see it through to its end. Every indication I've seen says that as soon as he drops dead, Cuba will undergo a radical change to a first-world capitalist nation. But that probably won't happen if we make things worse there first...

Strange, though, that I'm advocating a "doveish" position on this. Libertarian nut-jobs would claim it's because, as a liberal, I like Communists. This isn't true. It's just that I feel this situation does not call for military might, it calls for different measures. Each situation must be judged on its own merits.