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US Foreign Policy Failures Thrust Into Spotlight This week brought two failures of American foreign policy into sharp focus - in Cuba and Pakistan. The Cuban catastrophe is familiar. Isolating Fidel Castro only helped consolidate his iron grip. Political and trade sanctions hurt the Cuban people more than his regime. Washington has been so trapped and so much of a hostage to right-wing Cuban exiles in the United States that it wouldn't even take advantage of the end of the Cold War to change course. A contemporary parallel can be seen in the U.S. approach to Iran.

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US Foreign Policy Failures Thrust Into Spotlight

This week brought two failures of American foreign policy into sharp focus - in Cuba and Pakistan.

The Cuban catastrophe is familiar. Isolating Fidel Castro only helped consolidate his iron grip. Political and trade sanctions hurt the Cuban people more than his regime.

Washington has been so trapped and so much of a hostage to right-wing Cuban exiles in the United States that it wouldn't even take advantage of the end of the Cold War to change course.

A contemporary parallel can be seen in the U.S. approach to Iran.