The Only Way Out is Exile

World Affairs Journal ^ | 23 February 2014 | Michael J. Totten

[TChad]

“How many people here actually want to move to the U.S.?” I said.

Her eyes widened and she looked at me like I was stupid even for asking. “A hundred percent,” she said. “Well, maybe not a hundred, but close.”

[TChad]

This is another World Affairs Journal piece on Cuba by Michael J. Totten.

It seems that $20 per month and a ration card is not enough for many Cubans. Apparently they don't believe in equality.

[2ndDivisionVet]

Jeanne Kirkpatrick was wickedly funny in private and sharper than a tack.

[TChad]

Jeanne Kirkpatrick was wickedly funny in private and sharper than a tack.

You knew her? I wish I had met her.

I was struck by this Kirkpatrick quote from the Totten piece:

“Precisely the opposite is true of revolutionary Communist regimes. They create refugees by the million because they claim jurisdiction over the whole life of the society and make demands for change that so violate internalized values and habits that inhabitants flee by the tens of thousands in the remarkable expectation that their attitudes, values, and goals will ‘fit’ better in a foreign country than in their native land.”

Leftists never seem to understand that their dream society is utterly intolerable to everyone else.

[Jim Robinson]

All Marxist Democrats should strip down to equality and try living in the Cuban utopia for a year or so. Might cure them.

[TChad]

All Marxist Democrats should strip down to equality and try living in the Cuban utopia for a year or so.

I liked Totten's story of Black Panther Garland Grant, who hijacked a plane to Cuba in 1971, thinking it was a worker's paradise. He learned that the entire country is a prison. "Believe me, I’m all for the United States now. I’d even wear a Nixon button.”

Thanks for Free Republic.

[Jack Hammer]

“Precisely the opposite is true of revolutionary Communist regimes. They create refugees by the million because they claim jurisdiction over the whole life of the society and make demands for change that so violate internalized values and habits that inhabitants flee by the tens of thousands in the remarkable expectation that their attitudes, values, and goals will ‘fit’ better in a foreign country than in their native land.”

Someone should tell Obama; clearly, he just doesn’t get it.

[Rembrandt]

I was told by a native that 100% of the Vietnamese population wanted out of Vietnam (this was in 1996). Preferably, they wanted to go to the U.S., but really, just anywhere other than their Communist hellhole.

I’m sure this holds true for anyone in any other Communist country. It will prob be true for Americans before the Messiah is done.

[Aarchaeus]

"All Marxist Democrats should strip down to equality and try living in the Cuban utopia for a year or so. Might cure them."

I really doubt that it would.

A fool can look at all the evidence and information on any subject and draw the wrong conclusion. Happens most, if not all, the time. I believe that's how Marxism started.

[GeronL]

bump

[GeronL]

North Koreans think China looks like heaven if it did not round them up and send them back.

[98ZJ USMC]

I was told by a native that 100% of the Vietnamese population wanted out of Vietnam (this was in 1996). Preferably, they wanted to go to the U.S., but really, just anywhere other than their Communist hellhole.

So that the majority of them can start voting Democrat for their freebies?

No thanks.

[Politicalkiddo]

He knows. He just doesn’t care.

[crazyhorse691]

I have dealt mainly with the boat people from SE Asia(you can buy a persons release from Vietnam and Cambodia if you pay in US$). My first contact with Cubans was at one our yard sales and an immaculate dressed gentleman was obsessed with my Dads engineering slide rule...he turned out to be a Russian trained civil engineer that had been forced at gunpoint to leave his country because he had argued with the party apparatus about a highway placement. He got the slide rule plus 2 more that I had. He cried and his son hugged me.