U.S. policy toward Cuba has an eerie, frozen-in-time quality. It recalls the most hateful days of the Cold War, and continues to hold out the hope that the Cuban revolution can be destroyed. Its most enduring feature is the 30-year-old assumption that the United States will be able to subdue the island once again when the Cuban leader dies. In effect, U.S. policy could be aptly called "After Fidel."