What strikes me, though, in seeing the hopeful signs, is the contrast between those and the, er… other things going on in the world. Which is what you get when you allow the lunatics into power. The only conclusion anyone can come to in surveying the 67 years since Fidel Castro and his cronies seized power there is that the Cuban revolutionaries are lunatics. Crafty lunatics, who, as the State Department’s report on Cuban communism made clear, are far more dangerous and have been for a long time. You have to deny power to the lunatics.