http://consortiumnews.com/2014/12/19/obamas-belated-realism-on-cuba/

Obama’s Belated Realism on Cuba

December 19, 2014

President Obama has been what you might call a “closet realist,” favoring pragmatic approaches to world problems but afraid to buck Official Washington’s dominant “tough-guy-ism.” But he came out of the closet at least briefly in ending the Cuban embargo, as ex-CIA analyst Paul R. Pillar writes.
By Paul R. Pillar