It remains the case that under the current circumstances it is in America's interest to do what we can to offer a soft landing to a failed regime and a failed polity in a neighboring state. We don't want Cuba to collapse in poverty, anarchy and ruin. We don't want the Cuban people to starve—and to build rafts. We don't want order to break down. Transition will clearly come; something that is unsustainable won't last forever. And though we may have to hold our noses to do it, when the time comes it will be better for U.S. interests to work with the heirs of the Castros to arrange a transition that they can live with. We may need to acquiesce in the creation of some new Red Tycoons in Cuba as the price of a peaceful transition.
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