Its time for the US to intervene in Cuba and save the island nation

Suppose a husband kept his wife in the basement, manacled to the wall, and beat her on a regular basis.The neighbors could hear the poor woman’s groans but did nothing and were even kind to the man when they saw him.

“Mind your own business,” they told each other.That’s how I recently explained the plight of the Cuban people to a friend.For 67 years, a communist regime has used terror to cling to power — incarcerating them, torturing them or executing them when they dared protest or ask for a change in government.And most of the rest of the world has stood silently by.They trade with Cuba’s tyrants even though they know that only the regime’s overfed elite, and not the people, consume imported goods.

They vote with the regime at the UN.They welcome its butchers on state visits.Some countries support Cuba’s communists out of ideological affinity.

China, North Korea, Russia and Venezuela under Nicolas Maduro obviously fall under this model.Cuba remains Mecca for the world’s Marxists, who ignore such signs of hopelessness as the crumbling architecture and the advanced age of the people truly in power and hoof it off to Havana for mojitos and indoctrination under fraying posters of Che Guevara.Far too many other global players, however, do nothing because they enjoy having a rogue regime only 90 miles off the US coast thumb its nose at Uncle Sam — the suffering of the Cuban people be damned.Even Pope Leo XIV, for reasons known only to himself and his Boss, just gave the Cuban regime an assist, posting on social media last month, “I have received the greatly troubling news regarding an increase in tensions between Cuba and the United States of America,” as if news still arrived in the Vatican in scrolls carried in by monks from distant lands.Leo called for a “dialogue, in order to avoid violence and every action that could increase the suffering of the dear Cuban people.”I have a simple message for the head of my Church.Holy Father, take i...