Useful Fools

The AP has an significant foreign policy story about Bush seeking to spread democracy to Cuba and tighten the noose on the tyrannical Castro regime. But they couldn’t report it that way. Instead, George Gedda, the writer, had to spin it… starting this story with “Eager to please a key Florida constituency…”.

So I guess this isn’t a foreign policy move… just politics. Bush doesn’t do anything out of principle… just to win votes! At least that’s what George Gedda believes, and wants his readers to believe.

Anyone who has been keeping track knows that the Cuban emigres have been unhappy with the administration for not doing more (as they are with every administration), and the Administration knows that.

But they also know that Bush has a sincere interest in promoting Democracy. And if they are really paying attention, they know that Cuba is also a significant threat in the war on terror, with a major biological weapons capability just off the shores of the US, very strong connections with narco-terrorism and a significant espionage organization within the US that could deliver biological weapons.

But to the AP, it’s just one more move in the political chess game.

It’s too bad these guys can’t just report the news, rather than spinning and interpreting it. But that would be too much to ask, wouldn’t it?