Politics is the art of the possible, and policy is a way of defining a problem so that it can be solved. By that definition, the Administration and the Congress have yet to produce sound politics or successful policy in response to the ongoing crisis in Nicaragua. The White House and Capitol Hill have both reverberated with one-sided and unrealistic assessments of the challenge in Nicaragua, with deceptive and diversionary claims about what the U.S. should be trying to accomplish there and with unconvincing recipes for what to do. The result is an impasse that may come to a head this...
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