Within a matter of weeks, the United States declared war on Spain. Apparently, the Pentagon's top brass believed that some phony Cuban attacks against U.S. citizens would cause a public uproar and spark a demand for military action against Castro's regime. Fortunately, they never got the go-ahead to put their plan in motion. It is certainly the most blood-curdling. It's hard to say whether Cuba's account of the number of U.S. attempts on Castro's life is accurate.
Cuban officials allege.
There was a time when it was easy to justify this nation's efforts to snuff out Castro and his communist regime. Back then, Cuba was a silo for Soviet nuclear missiles and a breeding ground for leftist revolutionaries who sought to undermine governments throughout Central and South America. Those days are long gone. Cuba, like China, is struggling to adapt its brand of socialism to a world dominated by America's democracy. It neither is a threat to our way of life nor the ogre that Cuban exiles in South Florida claim it to be.