Liberal foreign-policy groups had mobilized against him, generating reams of material and harsh press accounts that painted Reich, who was born in Cuba, as an anti-Castro fanatic with a shadowy past.
"If we don't see the Cubans move towards a more liberal foreign-investment and trade regime, you will see a lot of this excitement disappear," says Ricardo Herrera of Cuba Now, a pro-Cuba advocacy group.Yet progress, though slow, is probably unstoppable.
"Political accommodation between the two major Palestinian factions offers Israel the assurance that its negotiating partner has the political legitimacy, even if not the full backing, of the Palestinian people," says Yonatan Touval of Mitvim, a liberal foreign-policy think-tank in Tel Aviv.
The Atlantic Monthly proclaimed that the Senator from Illinois had articulated his "Obama Doctrine," that represented, "the most sweeping, liberal foreign-policy critique that we have heard from a serious presidential contender in decades".
If Davidow does not have even a sense of his audience among the centrist-liberal foreign policy establishment in Washington, how can we expect him to deal with the new realities of an independent Latin America?
