Posted on 02/16/2015 10:53:59 AM PST by Kaslin
Wow… It’s been 56 years since Fidel Castro was sworn in as the Prime Minister of Cuba. Not unlike Obama Administration officials, the Eisenhower Administration originally felt that an olive branch and a hug might help the Soviet wannabes on the island-nation work with us capitalist pigs.
Um… Someone might have miscalculated a touch in 1959.
Fidel Castro, the Stalinist rebel who helped overthrow Batista, was a known communist… We didn’t want those kind of people working in Hollywood; but apparently we weren’t initially too opposed to them running an island. In defense of the US officials who fought for recognition of Cuba’s new leaders, a bunch of banana republics in the area already cheered on Che Guevara and Fidel – why on earth should we object to a communist revolution 90 miles off the US coast?
To be fair, there was quite a bit of concern among US officials. I mean, we were kinda being harassed by a group of commies in a third-world empire halfway across the globe… We really didn’t need a Marxist sympathizer in our backyard. But Secretary of State John Foster Dulles helped ease our fears by pointing out that Fidel wasn’t in a position to build a worker’s paradise 90 miles off of Florida’s coast… Heck, Castro wasn’t initially in charge of the government (some guy named Urrutia was “officially” in charge), how could he possibly rock the boat?
For those of you who haven’t picked up a copy of 13 Days, Dulles was a little off base. It wasn’t long before Fidel took the helm of government. Shockingly, with a communist hero running things, relations didn’t blossom between the US and Cuba. Castro was sworn in as premier in February 1959, and he immediately began “nationalizing” (socialist speak for “stealing”) American-owned properties, enterprises, and assets.
Not unlike Washington DC and the auto-industry.
Before anyone even realized what was happening, Castro had nationalized most of the island’s industry, abolished private property, and directed the government to regulate wage controls. (No, Elizabeth Warren… This is not a 2016 platform.) Aside from some crude American businessmen (translation: mafia families, industrial giants, and a handful of US Senators) who split town on the first of January 1959, everyone was caught off guard by a commie acting like – well – a commie.
Less than two years later, the US severed diplomatic relations with Cuba. Soon JFK unleashed the Bay of Pigs invasion. (Um… That also didn’t work out quite as planned.) Eventually Russia parked a few nuclear missiles on their newest satellite real-estate, and Kennedy responded by placing an embargo on the shifty little Stalinist state south of Florida.
Of course, now we are “normalizing” relations with the Castro brothers; which only really makes sense if we feel like rewarding 56 years of oppression, torture, political discrimination, and the killing of gays. (Seriously… Being gay is almost as bad as being a capitalist in Havana.)
When asked about Cuba’s refusal to release 53 political prisoners as part of Obama’s new “let’s work with communists” pact, the State Department essentially said “um… I guess we’ll look into it… If we have to.” But yeah: I’m real glad we’ve opened up to the Freedom-crushing pupils of Stalinist communism. That’s clearly a big step forward for the human condition, right?
I’m also pretty sure that in 1959, when Americans watched a Caribbean island fall to rebel forces, they never thought we’d be talking about “getting back together” with a bunch of communists who aimed nuclear missiles at our cities. Even John Dulles would probably have a little reservation about giving the Castro bros a pass on 56 years of Marxist tyranny.
Then again… It might be a nice place to play golf for our Commander in Chief. I guess everything has a trade-off.
Commies are still oppressors.
Now we have one squatting in the WH and our government institutions are loaded with them.
They still are bad guys..not the only ones,though. Other bad guys are doing a lot of the communists’ dirty work in America.
As are our Colleges and our News and Entertainment industries.
There is no security until this threat is neutralized.
Communist Party Convention, New York City
2007.
Communists tried to kill me, I haven’t forgotten that.
Any political party with the word ,”Democrat “ in it’s name is almost always Commie
I sure as heck remember.
What Commies fail to realize is that their whole plan from top down is doomed to fail because it goes against the very nature of man and stops working the minute the mean realize they are nothing more than slaves serving state masters.
And while they laugh and snicker, the commies pile more debt on their heads and steal more of their freedom.
0bama is a communist.
What Commies fail to realize is that their whole plan from top down is doomed to fail because it goes against the very nature of man and stops working the minute the men realize they are nothing more than slaves serving state masters.
Bring back the House Un-American Activities Committee
Tell Obama that same sex unions/marriages are still not recognized in Cuba and that AIDS patients are locked up and maybe he’ll put the kabosh on this normalization thing.
They aren’t ghey friendly.
I am trying to figure out when they STOPPED being the bad guys.
These days, they’d probably list such un-American activities as “going to church,” “owning guns,” and “failing to ride the bus.”
I sure do and now we have one in the WH playing footsie with the two murdering commies in Cuba.
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