According to the Associated Press -- a critic of free markets everywhere else -- Raul Castro's pro-freedom reforms in Cuba will "strengthen communism," by which the AP -- long close to the CIA, as the late Sen. Frank Church showed -- means a government not under the thumb of the US.
Now, Raul's reforms, while a good start, don't begin to approach the private property and economic freedom that Cuba needs. But are we really suppose to worry if a government makes life freer and more prosperous for its people by shrinking, and therefore is disliked less? This is heroic. China did it. May Cuba -- and the US -- follow that path as well.
