Article: The correct line on Castro's Cuba.

THERE has been such a fixation in Washington on when Fidel Castro's regime will dissolve that his continuing ability to hang on has contributed to a policy paralysis. In the argument by analogy made by President George Bush at the end of last year, and by Secretary of Defense Dick Cheney shortly after the beginning of this one-namely, that Cuban Communism will go the way of Eastern Europe-we fall prey to awaiting events rather than forging them. Waiting for Castro to step (or fall) down has turned out to be like waiting for Godot.

One sees here a familiar pattern: The United States prefers to deal with established, stable powers and figures, even if they are venal and ...

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