The BlogUT-AustinPresidential Debatescuba

On Cuba: UT Austin Student Submits Excellent Question for CNN Presidential Debates

On Cuba: UT Austin Student Submits Excellent Question for CNN Presidential Debates
By 

Washington Editor at Large of The Atlantic and founder and senior fellow of the American Strategy Program at the New America Foundation.

Washington Editor at Large of The Atlantic and founder and senior fellow of the American Strategy Program at the New America Foundation.
This post was published on the now-closed HuffPost Contributor platform. Contributors control their own work and posted freely to our site. If you need to flag this entry as abusive, send us an email.

A UT Austin/LBJ School student of Economics Professor James K. Galbraith has submitted the following question to CNN for the CNN/Univision debates on Thursday between Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama.

It's perfect -- and may push these candidates beyond their risk-averse and tepid reactions to the news that Fidel Castro's last term as Cuba's President will come to an end on February 24th:

"The United States has maintained an embargo against Cuba since 1961, separating families, causing personal hardship, abrogating the constitutional right of U.S. citizens to travel freely -- and all with absolutely no political effect on Cuba.

Do you agree that, as a policy, the embargo has failed? And if so, what steps will you take to end it?"

The student has take the route of anonymity in this case -- but note to Wolf Blitzer, this is the right question to pose.

CNN should make sure this one is on the docket.

-- Steve Clemons publishes the popular political blog, The Washington Note

|
Submit a tip

Popular in the Community

Close

What's Hot