Posted on 09/13/2011 3:07:09 PM PDT by nuconvert
Because he thinks that taking hat in hand and talking one Communist to another from a position of weakness and obeisance is the best way to do diplomacy with regimes such as the ones in North Korea and Cuba.
Richardson is way out of his depth. Communist Cuba has been playing these games for decades.
The accused says he was trying to bring in equipment to help the Jewish community in Cuba gain internet access.
I’m not sure I believe that, but OTOH, I can buy some of these libs doing their “peace mission” stuff only to realize they are playing hardball with some really vicious types.
In either case, Jewish Americans here in FL need to be made aware of this.
Wowsers, what a concept. Castro really is a tyrant and an America-hating, freedom-hating dictator!!
Who (besides conservatives) would EVER have believed it???
I guess Richardson may have to re-think his position on communism . . . . . . among many, MANY other things.
Well, I think his problem was that he wasn’t dealing with his buddy Fidel. He was dealing with Raul. And Raul didn’t want to play with Bill.
Dear Bill, do a search on the phrase “useful idiot”, then look in a mirror.
CARTER, RICHARDSON AND FIDEL CASTRO, A FAUSTIAN FRIENDHSIP
HUMBERTO FONTOVA: CASTRO AND CHE’S FORGOTTEN 9/11
By Ruth King on May 6th, 2011
http://frontpagemag.com/2011/05/06/castro-and-che%e2%80%99s-foiled-and-forgotten-911/print/
Castro and Che’s Foiled (and Forgotten) 9/11 Posted By Humberto Fontova
“I’m proud of the path of Osama bin Laden,” gushed Ilich Ramírez Sánchez from a French prison in 2002. Ramirez was also known during the 1970’s as “Carlos the Jackal,” and “The World’s Most Wanted Terrorist.” In 1967, Ramirez-Sanchez was an eager recruit into Cuba’s “guerrilla” (terror) training camps started by Che Guevara in 1959. “Bin Laden has followed a trail I myself blazed,” he continued during an interview with the London-based pan-Arab daily Al-Hayat. “I followed news of the September 11 attacks on the United States non-stop from the beginning. I can’t describe that wonderful feeling of relief!”
“We will bring the war to the imperialist enemies’ very home,” raved Carlos the Jackal’s idol and spiritual mentor (Che Guevara) in his Message to the Tri-Continental Conference in 1966, “to his places of work and recreation. The imperialist enemy must feel like a hunted animal wherever he moves. Thus we’ll destroy him! These hyenas are fit only for extermination. We must keep our hatred (against the U.S.) alive and fan it to paroxysm!”
Fortunately, on Nov. 17 1962, J. Edgar Hoover’s FBI foiled the “war” Castro and Che had planned for us “hyenas,” in some of our favorite “places of recreation.” On Saturday morning, November 17th, 1962, FBI headquarters in Washington D.C. took on “all the trappings of a military command post,” according to historian William Breuer.
As well it might. The night before an intelligence puzzle had finally come together. The resulting picture staggered the FBI men. And these had served at their posts during WWII and the height of the Cold War. They’d seen plenty. Now they had mere days to foil a crime against their nation to rival Hideki Tojo’s, including the Bataan Death March.
The agents and officers were haggard and red-eyed –but seriously wired. Like hawks on a perch they’d been watching the plot unfold, sweating bullets the whole time. It was nearing time to swoop down on Fidel Castro and Che Guevara’s agents, busy with a terror plot that would have made Bin Laden drool decades later.
Alan Belmont was second to J Edgar Hoover at the time. Raymond Wannall headed the Bureau’s Intelligence Division. That nerve-jangling morning both were in Belmont’s office just down the hall from Hoover’s. Both were burning up the telephone lines to their agents in New York. On one phone they had Special Agent John Malone who ran the New York field office. On other lines they talked with several carloads of FBI agents slinking around Manhattan. These were keeping a touch-and-go, but more or less constant, surveillance on the ringleaders of the Cuban terror plot.
Castro’s agents had targeted Macy’s, Gimbels, Bloomingdales, and Manhattan’s Grand Central Station with a dozen incendiary devices and 500 kilos of TNT. The holocaust was set for detonation the following week, on the day after Thanksgiving.
A little perspective: For their March 2004 Madrid subway blasts, all 10 of them, that killed and maimed almost 2,000 people, al-Qaeda used a grand total of 100 kilos of TNT. Castro and Che’s agents planned to set off five times that explosive power in the three biggest department stores on earth, all packed to suffocation and pulsing with holiday cheer on the year’s biggest shopping day. Macy’s get’s 50,000 shoppers that one day. Thousands of New Yorkers, including women and children—actually, given the date and targets, probably mostly women and children—were to be incinerated and entombed.
At the time, the FBI relied heavily on “HUMINT” (Human Intelligence.) So they’d expertly penetrated the plot. One by one the ringleaders were ambushed. The first and most important was named Roberto Santiesteban and he was nabbed while walking down Riverside Drive. As the agents closed in, Santiesteban saw them and –took off! And as he ran, Santiesteban was jamming paper in his mouth and chewing furiously.
But six FBI agents were after him, all fleet of foot themselves. Finally they closed the ring and “triangulated” the suspect. Santiesteban fell, raging and cursing, flailing his arms and jabbing his elbows like a maniac. They grabbed his arm and bent it behind his back just as he was reaching for his pistol.
While this group got their man (and a vigorous workout), another FBI squad had the much easier task of arresting a couple named Jose and Elsa Gomez-Abad as they left their apartment on West 71st Street. These two gave in without a struggle. The FBI speculated that as many as 30 others might have been in on the plot, but these were the head honchos. Had those detonators gone off, 9/11 might be remembered as the SECOND deadliest terrorist attack on U.S. soil.
Santiesteban and the Gomezes belonged to the Castro-Cuban Mission to the U.N., and plead “diplomatic immunity.” Other plotters belonged to the New York Chapter of the Fair Play for Cuba Committee, an outfit that became MUCH better known a year later on that very week.
“We greeted each other as old friends!” (Jimmy Carter describing his visit with Fidel Castro last month.)
I would be a very bad President.
See I’d tell the leaders of Cuba and Iran, and any country unjustly holding Americans to let them or go or get bombs dropped on their houses. And I’d mean it. I feel strongly that these leaders need to have their lives personally threatened.
What am I saying, day 1 of the Impy administration, the Castros are dead, Kim Jong is dead, Chavez is dead, the clerics in Iran are dead, Mugabe is dead. The job of “leader of an oppressive regime” needs to be made like the job of Sheriff is all those old western movies, one that no one wants due the high probability of getting shot in the face.
can he pick up some cigars before he leaves?
Doesn’t sound bad to me. Sounds very pro-active. ;-D
A solar powered disco ball orbiting the earth, a la the Death Star, that blows enemy forces up from outer space. It would be crewed by a hand selected group of hotties chosen by me, Emperor Palpatine II.
Also, I have decided that after my voyage to Providence last night, my first action as Emperor is to sign an EO outlawing hot chicas from getting tattoos.
After your trip to Providence last night, I hope you got your shot of penicillin today.
I still have my outfit from last night soaking...AND YES IT WAS WORTH IT!!!
Evidence for the grand jury ?
No...just delousing and disinfecting. :)
Sounds good to me to me too, which brings me back to “make’s too much sense”.
To me assassinating all the scum seems like an obvious logical thing to do. Sure easier than invading everyone. I honestly don’t why it apparently is not on the table. Obviously you may want to lay off of Putin and the Chicoms cause they are nuclear but everybody else....
But a President that did so would be branded as an insane murderer by the media, democrats, RINOs, and Europe.
What a world.
Sometimes experiential learning is the best form of learning. Now Richardson realizes Cuba is brutal third world banana boat dictatorship.
“Paging General Pinochet!”
And thank you!
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