Fidel Castro: I don't care what happens to Cuba after my death.

Worldandi.com ^ | 1991 | Georgie Anne Geyer

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This is a long read ---- an excellent article.

[Doogle]

...SHOCKER!!!...he didn't care what happen to Cuba over the last 40 years ....so what's new?


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[cripplecreek]

I've thought about dictators and their thoughts for the future of their countries. The lack of concern for the future seems pretty common even if they don't say it outright.

Castro planned on putting his brother in power even though he really doesn't have what it takes to hold power. Saddam Hussein was going to put one of his sons into power and that would have led to a power struggle that would have torn the country apart.

Megalomaniac dictators seem to think they are their countries and without them the country ceases to exist. The ultimate in selfishness.

[Brilliant]

Hugo Chavez could succeed him.

[Sacajaweau]

Barbara WaWa said he was "charming". So was Bubba. Seems she 's easy to pants.

[Yorlik803]

Hitler did the same thing...when the war was almost over, he said that he no longer cared and the people and left them to their own devices.

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he is a Fidelista in the spirit of, as the Spanish like to say, "Primero soy yo." (Or, "Me first!")

It's always been: WHAT ABOUT ME...WHAT ABOUT ME...WHAT ABOUT ME...

[HiTech RedNeck]

The generally accepted truths about Fidel Castro are really only elastic creations that stretch, like a lithe feline, into the realms of mythology.

My "lithe feline" who can read the future, had this to say to me this morning: "Rauuuuuuuuuul!"

[Cinnamon]

Excellent read... no wonder Hugo Chavez amigo 1 with him..

[kabar]

Another fawning, puff piece on Castro. He was simply a ruthless, power-hungry dictator who ran a police state and murdered thousands. History will judge him so.

[Moonman62]

Perhaps most important of all, Castro's Cuba will be forever cited as the first example of Soviet communism's success in establishing a satellite country in the Western Hemisphere,

Bullcrap. Castro hated America, which is why I believe he chose Communism. He cooperated with the Soviets only to the point that it would help him personally, or cause problems for the US. He purged Communists from his government who tried to follow the Soviets rather than him.

[RetiredArmy]

My prediction is that when Castro dies, Jimmy Carter will assume power in Cuba. He will name Dan Rather to his cabinet.

[jdm]

"when the war was almost over, he said that he no longer cared and the people and left them to their own devices."

Not to mention he killed himself when the going got tough.

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I found this interesting:

Dean Rusk called it "the most dangerous crisis the world has ever seen"; Theodore Sorensen referred to it as the "Gettysburg of the Cold War." But in the end, the young President John F. Kennedy handled it brilliantly, Khrushchev backed off, and Castro went into spasms of rage. He had entered the "game of nations" as a vainglorious croupier, but the game was finally fixed by the casino owners. We know now, too, that Khrushchev was terrified at Castro's willingness to use the weapons to attack the United States directly and Castro was furious at him--this came out in later years in the famous message from Castro to Khrushchev called the "Armageddon Letter."

Blowing up the world was not the Soviets' intention, but Castro was, at any juncture where he might be cornered or destroyed, willing to resort to any measures, including most probably nuclear attacks.

[popdonnelly]

Thanks, Fidel. After forty years of ruining the country, you don't care what happens to it? I wonder if your fawning idiots know this, or even care. The only thing we have to regret is that we couldn't slip you one of those exploding cigars.

[JustDoItAlways]

When they write his obituary, they better talk about all the millions of people he slaughtered in Latin America and, especially, Africa with his arming and supporting of communist rebel armies who have wrecked havoc in countless civil wars.

[dfwgator]

"The Lost City" is now out on DVD, you've simply got the see this movie. It is a brilliant film, and it exposes Castro and his lot for the thugs they really were, who took advantage of the majority who did want change, just not the kind of change they had in mind.

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You must have NOT read it....it's actually NOT a puff piece.

[BW2221]

You're right. It is an excellent article and explains a lot about why he has operated the way he has.

Let's hope Fidel croaks soon and Cubans can get on with the next chapter in their history.

[Lazamataz]

Fidel Castro: I don't care what happens to Cuba after my death.

I, too, don't care what happens to Cuba after Castro's death.