Richard Cohen Does: (By Kaus, out of Volokh, as the horse-breeders say.) A man of the left takes on the left's soft spot for dictators, particularly Cuba's blood-soaked thief-in-chief. It's no use to excerpt; too wonderful from start to finish. Read it all.

Side note: Wouldn't it be a shock to the world (and great fun, to boot) if we announced that, after Iraq, Cuba was next on "the list"? Even if just as a joke, like Reagan's "the bombing will begin" remark. Ah, to see the look on that old fart Castro's face, the cigar tumbling out of his gaping mouth into his crotch, his quivering hand reaching for the phone to ready his asylum (in France, no doubt -- or Beverly Hills).