Incredulity

I just read a story on CNN.com that a special panel appointed by Bush has recommended that when Castro dies, we need to have people in Cuba to "assist" and "ease the transition to democracy." Hasn't any one learned their lesson? What right do we have to dictate how another country runs its government when we can't even take care of our own problems? This CNN article seemed to take it for granted that we have the right to mold Cuba in our own image, that everything we say about Cuba is true, and that everything Cuba says about itself is false. I think the strangest juxtaposition in the whole article was when the state department accused Cuba of "bullying tactics," in reference to a recent power outage to "U.S. interests in Havana."
(CNN takes it for granted that the power outage was intentional and targeted only U.S. interests. According to Cuba, it was simply a power outage, affecting a wide area of Havana. You won't find Cuba's side of the story in the article, though.) The next paragraph describes the draconian sanctions that have been placed against the island, which have been rendered even more draconian in the past couple of years. Who's bullying whom?