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Lugar Calls for a "Return to Realism" on Cuba
thewashingtonnote.com - 2/22/2009
Lugar Calls for a "Return to Realism" on Cuba
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Senate Foreign Relations Committee Ranking Member Richard Lugar , a long time realist and serious strategic thinker about America's national security challenges, has just popped the bubble of those who have used Cuba for decades in their ineffective ideological crusades. Lugar's team ...
washingtonpost.com - 2/21/2009
Lugar, GOP Senate Report Urge Fresh Look at Relations With Cuba
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washingtonpost.com - 2/22/2009
Lugar, GOP Senate Report Urge Fresh Look at Relations With Cuba
— washingtonpost.com — Washington Post Staff Writer Saturday, February 21, 2009; A03 Restrictive U.S. policies toward Cuba are ineffective, have... failed to achieve their stated purpose of promoting democracy and should be reevaluated to take advantage of recent political ... (more) Lugar, GOP Senate Report Urge Fresh Look at Relations ...

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Senator Richard Lugar Calls for New Approach to Cuba
Matthew Yglesias — ... Senator Richard Lugar (R-Indiana) has long been a voice of reason on foreign policy issues. And now via Steve Clemons, I see an important new report titled “CHANGING CUBA POLICY — IN THE UNITED STATES NATIONAL INTEREST” ( ...

Embargo of Cuba Nearing an End?
MoJo Blog Posts: mojo — ... . Today, Richard Lugar, ranking member on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, will release a staff report critical of decades of misguided and often counterproduction US policy vis-a-vis Cuba. (Thanks go to Steve Clemons for posting ...

Is Removal of Cuba From "State Sponsors" List Inevitable?
Counterterrorism Blog — ... When posting news of the report, Steve Clemons also reported that U.S.-Cuba policy is under a complete review at the State Department. Secretary Clinton didn't deny that the review could include removal from the "state sponsors" list ...

Menendez gets the Cuba debate off to a bad start
Political Animal — ... nominees -- Obama's choices to be White House Office of Science and Technology Policy and the head of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration -- to get the senators' attention on his Cuba-related concerns. So, to summarize, Menendez supports Obama's nominees, but won't let the Senate vote on them until after he's done complaining about a subtle change in a foreign policy that hasn't worked after more than five decades of attempts. Changing the U.S. policy towards Cuba is ...

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Sen. Lugar says US must rethink Cuba embargo (AP) — Yahoo! News: Politics News 2/22/2009
AP - The U.S. policy of shunning communist Cuba by imposing a strict trade embargo has failed to prod the island nation toward democracy and should be re-evaluated, according to the top Republican on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.
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Lugar says it's time to reconsider Cuba embargo — CNN.com - Politics 2/23/2009
Sen. Richard Lugar, the ranking Republican on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, released a draft report Monday saying it is time to reconsider longtime U.S. economic sanctions on Cuba.