Time for reality?

You know things have changed when even Republicans start to notice some basic aspects of reality. Even though when it happens you start wondering about water flowing uphill, cocks crowing at midnight, and the sun rising in the west, this may be one of those times.

Lugar Urges Reconsideration of US-Cuba Relations
By VOA News
22 February 2009


Senator Richard Lugar, a Republican Senator, is urging the United States to reconsider its relations with Cuba.

US Senator Richard Lugar, R-Ind., chairman of the US Senate's Foreign Relations Committee US Senator Richard Lugar, R-Ind., chairman of the US Senate's Foreign Relations Committee The Indiana lawmaker says restrictive U.S. policies have failed to achieve their stated goal of promoting democracy in Cuba.

He hasn't gone so far as to propose ending the economic warfare--oops, trade embargo-- against Cuba, but this is a start.