Posted on 12/18/2014 4:59:10 AM PST by SJackson
Obama’s Bailout for Communist Dictators
Posted By Daniel Greenfield On December 18, 2014 @ 12:44 am In Daily Mailer,FrontPage | 7 Comments
The Soviet Union did not have to fall. If Carter had won a second term and Mondale had succeeded him, the Communist dictatorship might have received the outside help it needed to survive.
And we would still be living under the shadow of the Cold War.
Carter couldn’t save the Soviet Union, but he did his best to save Castro, visiting Fidel and Raul in Cuba where the second worst president in American history described his meeting with Castro as a greeting among “old friends”.
Raul Castro called Carter “the best of all U.S. presidents.”
Obama’s dirty deal with Raul will make the worst president in American history, Castro’s new best friend.
Carter couldn’t save Castro, but Obama did. This was not a prisoner exchange. This was a Communist bailout.
Obama boasted that he would increase the flow of money to Cuba from businesses, from bank accounts and from trade. When he said, “We’re significantly increasing the amount of money that can be sent to Cuba”, that was his real mission statement.
The Castro regime is on its last legs. Its sponsors in Moscow and Caracas are going bankrupt due to failing energy prices. The last hope of the Butcher of Havana was a bailout from Washington D.C.
And that’s exactly what Obama gave him.
Obama has protected the Castros from regime change as if Communist dictators are an endangered species.
From the beginning, Obama put his foreign policy at the disposal of Havana when he backed Honduran leftist thug Manuel Zelaya’s attempt to shred its Constitution over the protests of the country’s Congress and Supreme Court. And its military, which refused to obey his illegal orders.
Obama’s support for an elected dictator in Honduras should have warned Americans that their newly elected leader viewed men like Zelaya favorably and constitutions and the separation of powers between the branches of government unfavorably. It also showcased his agenda for Latin America.
His embrace of Raul Castro brings that agenda out into the open even if he still insists in wrapping it in dishonest claims about “freedom” and “openness” while bailing out a Communist dictatorship.
Obama began his Castro speech with a lie, declaring, “The United States of America is changing its relationship with the people of Cuba.”
The Cuban people have no relationship with the United States because they have no free elections and no say in how they are governed. The only Cubans who have a relationship with the United States fled here on rafts.
Obama did not make his dirty deal with the Cuban people. He made it in a marathon phone call with the Cuban dictator.
When Obama claims that his deal with Raul Castro represents a new relationship with the people of Cuba, he is endorsing a Communist dictatorship as the legitimate representative of the Cuban people.
This is a retroactive endorsement of the Castro regime and its entire history of mass murder and political terror. Obama is not trying to “open up” Cuba as he claimed. He likes Cuba just the way it is; Communist and closed.
Obama did not consult the Cuban people, just as he did not consult the American people. He disregarded the embargo, Congress, the Constitution and the freedom of the Cuban people.
His dictatorial disregard of the embargo, which can only be eliminated by Congress, in order to support a dictatorship, is a disturbing reminder that the road he is walking down leads to a miserable tyranny.
Cuban-American senators from both parties have been unanimous in condemning the move. These senators are the closest thing to Cuban elected officials. But Obama disregarded Senator Menendez, a man of his own party, Senator Marco Rubio and Senator Ted Cruz.
Instead Obama chose to stand with Raul Castro and his Communist dictatorship.
Obama tried to whitewash his crime by exploiting Alan Gross, a USAID contractor who was imprisoned and abused by the Castro regime, as if the release of an American hostage justified helping the men holding him hostage stay in power. And the media, which was reprinting Castro’s propaganda claiming that Gross’ imprisonment was justified, is busy now pretending that it cares about his release.
He had similarly tried to whitewash his Taliban amnesty by using Bergdahl and his parents as cover. If a deal is struck with Iran, the release of Robert Levinson, Saeed Abedini or Amir Hekmati will almost certainly be used to divert attention from the fact that their own government has collaborated with the thugs and terrorists who took them hostage.
Even though Obama criticized European countries for paying financial ransoms to ISIS, his own ransom paid to the Castros is worth countless billions. And the blood money pouring out of American banks into the Castro regime will encourage other dictatorships to take Americans hostage as leverage for obtaining concessions from the United States. Americans abroad will suffer for Obama’s dirty deal.
No European country recognized ISIS in exchange for the release of hostages. Only Obama was willing to go that far with Cuba, not only opening diplomatic and economic relations, but promising to remove the Communist dictatorship from the list of state sponsors of terror despite the fact that the last State Department review found that Cuba continued to support the leftist narco-terrorists of FARC.
FARC had taken its own American hostages who were starved and beaten, tortured and abused.
Now Obama has given in to the demand of a state sponsor of terror to be removed from the list of state sponsors of terrorism in exchange for releasing a hostage.
Obama has sent a message to Iran that the best way to secure a deal is by wrapping it in an American hostage. He has told ISIS that we do negotiate with terrorists. And he has once again demonstrated that his vaunted “smart power” is nothing more than appeasement wrapped in excuses and lies.
But Obama did not act to help Alan Gross. He did not even act because he genuinely thought that diplomatic relations would open up Cuba. In his speech, Obama used the claim commonly put forward by Castro apologists that the very fact that the Castros were still in power proved that sanctions had failed. Yet the lack of sanctions against Cuba by the rest of the world certainly did not usher in the new spirit of openness that Obama is promising. Rewarding dictators with cash never frees a nation.
This was not about saving Alan Gross. It was about saving Raul Castro.
Obama and Castro are both weakened leaders of the left. Like the Castros, Obama has lost international influence and his own people have turned on him. The only thing he has left is unilateral rule.
If Obama saw something of his own hopes and aspirations to engage in a populist transformation of the United States in Manuel Zelaya or Hugo Chavez, his horizons have narrowed down to those of Raul Castro. His ability to remake the world has vanished and the American people are revolting against his collectivization efforts. They want open health care markets, free speech and honest government.
Obama can no longer remake the Middle East, he certainly can’t bring the Soviet Union back from the dead, but he could still bail out Raul Castro and maintain Communist rule in Cuba.
No matter how often Obama claims to be “on the right side of history”, the Castros are a living reminder that to be on the left is to be on the wrong side of history.
Obama did not want to see the “Berlin Wall” fall in Havana on his watch. After watching his own grip on the United States collapse, he did not want to see the left fail again.
We can never know how history might have been different if Carter had gotten a second term or if Mondale had replaced Reagan. But Obama’s deal with Castro reminds us that the end of the USSR was not inevitable. It happened because we stood up against the tyrants in the Kremlin and their useful idiots in the White House.
A good man like Reagan could make a difference by bringing down the USSR. A bad man like Obama can make a difference by keeping Cuba Communist.
Cube will be a boat anchor around our necks... AS IF we can deal with THAT right now.
The USSR pulled the plug on Cuba and rightly so. THEIR tankers were routinely dead-heading all the way back to the USSR, and they got sick of it.
NOW the US gets to throw $$$$ down the Cuban s&^% hole!
Obama likes all totalitarian countries more than he likes the USA. If the Congress lets him decree this Cuban bailout, financed by our struggling Middle Class, we should just disband Congress. It is a useless body that only costs us more than it’s worth. We essentially have the imperial presidency and the courts that attempt to curb his power. The people have no voice.
At least Mrs. Obama won’t have to suffer the terrible humiliation of being asked about products in a Target store in Cuba; see, there’s no racism there and there is also no Target store or much of anything else.
The only strategic counter point I can think of is the question do we want a Communist China puppet state 90 miles off shore? Or is this simply Obama offering reparations for his perception of America's past sins along with opening up fertile ground for more outsourcing and cheap labor to further destroy the USA economy?
Depend on it, “O” only wants to pee in everyone’s soup before he leaves office.
PERIOD
He knows NOTHING about the process of US diplomacy and what actions of the US Presidents mean.
Grabbing headlines is what he’s all about... he has no idea what the f^%$ he’s doing.
Americas might as well have given a loaded gun to a toddler as put “O” in the WH.
Obama thinks were worse to the world than communist dictatorships.
0 and other communists think that the embargo is the cause of the Cubans’ poverty. They will find a way to send billions of our money to Cuba, which will not make the people prosperous, but will reward a regime that 0 admires.
“Americas might as well have given a loaded gun to a toddler as put “O” in the WH.”
Obama and whoever or whatever is behind him depends on most people coming to that conclusion. Far from being dumb, Obama’s handlers are diabolically and magnificently brilliant. They have been able, in six short years, and from within, to achieve what no other nation or enemy of ours has been able to do in our history. They have rendered our military more useless than it has ever been, both by drastic cuts and by introducing destructive and demoralizing regulations. They have destroyed our healthcare system, which, heretofore, was the greatest on earth. They have brought the producing part of the American workforce to ruin with overburdening taxes, incentives to do nothing, and demanding that the few give up everything to support the many. They have thrown open our borders to masses of foreign invaders who come to suck the last vestiges of an economy and the few jobs that we have left. They have restricted the use of our rich natural resources by taking over the very air we breathe and giving themselves power over every atom of material we use. They have castrated our law enforcement and given criminals of every shape, size and preferred method of evil more power and more protection than the law-abiding citizen. And now, in these last two years of Obama’s administration, they are parceling out what vestiges of our goods that remain to any foreign entity who holds to their Communist beliefs and policies. By the end of their administration, America will be unrecognizable as anything but another Socialist hellhole.
These things(and more too numerous to mention) weren’t carried out by anyone who lacks intelligence. Obama himself is just a front, easily elected because he appears black. His hazy and sometimes nonexistent past no doubt included years of instruction and training for just the role he is playing now. If anyone has been incredibly and inexcusably dumb; it is the Liberal Democrats who sold out this nation for what they thought would be their moment in the sun. They have been nothing but willing, stupid pawns in a plan to destroy us.
We have been infiltrated by the most dangerous enemy we have ever known. IMHO, only G-d can help us now.
The problem I see is that the people we voted into office to speak for us, have been inert and mute the whole while this has been happening.
“The problem I see is that the people we voted into office to speak for us, have been inert and mute the whole while this has been happening.”
I do agree with that. However, our representatives try to pander and appease every faction, regardless of its value, for votes, not principles. Sadly, much of the voting public has no idea what American values are/were.
In today’s society, there is no “right.” It’s all relative. I don’t see any good end.
That’s why the Tea Party has an edge.
THEY at least are consistent, honest and unwavering in their expression of Americans’ basic, immutable requirements of leadership and their understanding of the limits of government.
It is quite humorous really, the citizens want the leaders we elect to follow and uphold the constitution they all took an oath to obey and live within the country's means, stop spending money we do not have. To see the venomous reaction from just about everybody, especially from the elite running the show, toward this very simple message is getting kinda scary.
What more are they prepared to do to us?
Comrades helping comrades it’s just the way of the progressives.
“What more are they prepared to do to us?”
Maybe that’s the kind of thing that German Jews were saying to themselves, in the 30’s... up to the point that Hitler began building furnaces to resolve his social problems.... (BTW-problems HE precipitated).
Tea Party needs to step up to the plate NATIONALLY and be totally pro active!
I’m Ready!!
Our little group is not working with the local R party, although most of us are precinct committee chairman. We tolerate eachother, but there is hostility from the R party even locally.
We did manage to elect a tea party sheriff, we sent him to the Constitutional Sheriff's convention offered by Sheriff Mack and we elected a teaparty candidate to be our county's tax assessor. Local is where we are concentrating our resources, but push back is from all sides.
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