My work is done here.
Posted on 08/15/2006 4:40:24 AM PDT by slickeroo
So have Democrats.
What is it that keeps all these people here? Why don't they "move on" and go to their paradise?
Because they are yellow, lily-livered, attention-craving, double-speak cowards.
( Israel - No More Olmert! No More Kadima! No More Oslo Folly!)
Excellent article. I've debated the Cuban issue with conservatives who I consider to be intelligent people. EVEN SOME OF THEM believe the Castro-propagated myth that the revolution educated the Cuban masses and radically improved healthcare. The fact that pre-Castro Cuba was a fairly advanced nation gets lost in a sea of leftist babble.
Talk about a rogue's gallery of communists.
Hows this for some reviews:
My work is done here.
"We put Castro in power," flatly stated former U.S. Ambassador to Cuba Earl T. Smith during congressional testimony in 1960. He was referring to the U.S. State Department and CIA's role in aiding the Castro rebels, also to the U.S. arms embargo on Batista, also to the official U.S. order that Batista vacate Cuba. Ambassador Smith knew something about these events because he had personally delivered the messages to Batista.Jimmy Carter wasn't the first Jimmy Carter. Just the worst.
But will God? Historians don't write the Book of Life. 
Let's wait and see what Jesus says.
Thank you, Humberto Fontova! My education just advanced by one leap and two bounds.
The Left doesn't know history because they only rewrite it.
Castro is vindicated. He saved the Cubans from living in a Carribean paradise and enslaved them in a free-substandard-medi-care Stalingrad-gulag paradise.
And why does a history of Castro not talk about the civil wars he started in Africa. Why is Africa a basket-case today? Cuban-led communist civil wars and Cuban-backed dictators are a big part of the reason.
http://www.sweetness-light.com/archive/reuters-photoshops-cuba-african-history
"From the deserts of Algeria and Ethiopia to the jungles of Guinea Bissau and Congo and the Angolan bush, close to half a million Cubans have fought and worked on African soil in the name of "revolutionary solidarity"."
Castro represents the ultimate cockeyed dream of libs: the socialist hero who saves his country from evil capitalism. Yes, Batista was corrupt, but the libs failed to notice something. Cuba is a lot worse off after close to fifty years of Fidel. Once again libs refuse to acknowledge that socialism never rescues a country, it only makes things worse. But the blind still keep dreaming. Look at all the praise directed at the old dirty dictator by our stupid leftist celebs who don't live in Cuba. Libs are still the biggest fools in the world.
Here one blinks, looks again – and gapes.How is it that the same insipid, utilitarian arguments have held so long? Oh, yes, good health care, good education, blah blah... all of which is a stupid myth. I guess it's all they have. More honest Castro lovers simply fall upon idolatry, like this letter writer to the Washington Post:
Let Cubans Decide Their FutureThat the (com)Post chose to publish it says enough, but look at what this twit is saying: "lively conversation," enigmatic, charismatic" are what count in a leader. Clearly, Cuban government censorship during this woman's visit wasn't necessary. Clearly, she didn't even try looking around. She probably even believes that she could have wandered and talked freely. Too bad, for she missed the chance to have lunch with the rest of Cuba:
Sunday, August 13, 2006; B06
Lisa M. Wixon had it almost 100 percent right in her Aug. 6 op-ed column, "Cuba for Dummies." In 2003 I visited Cuba twice, legally. During one visit I had the unusual experience of having lunch (with eight others) with President Fidel Castro. This lunch and its lively conversation with the enigmatic, charismatic Cuban leader are topics for another time. My daughter, a journalist, and I, the photographer on assignment, took notes and photographs during the luncheon, uncensored and unencumbered.
The people of Cuba (the country has a reported literacy rate of 97 percent) will decide how to handle things post-Fidel Castro. The future is theirs to decide, and America needs to respect the outcome regardless of whether it serves American interests.
LINDA BLOUNT BERRY
Washington
Replace her use of the name "Fidel" with that of any dictator, and see if "lively conversation" accompanies lunch. (No report on what was served.) Or was Pinochet's problem that he was not "enigmatic, charismatic"? -- or leftist.
Poverty in Cuba: therealcuba.com
But even Fidel-worshipping only goes so far: once again, the letter writer falls again upon the "reported literacy rate" to justify her point. Does she really think the "people" of Cuba "will decide how to handle things"? Does the (com)Post really think that delusion print-worthy?
Reminds me of the joke about an old Cuban man, Fidel, and his wife, who are trying to get off a bus at their stop. The wife went first, and hagging her decrepit husband, who had trouble stepping down (no handicap lift in Cuba), yelled, "Baja Fidel! Baja Fidel!" To which the entire bus erupts, "Baja Fidel! Baja Fidel!"
If only the Cuban people had the choice. Btw, the op-ed mentioned by the letter-writer, Cuba for Dummies is even more insipid than that letter: this one thinks the Cuban people are happy, and, besides, all this commotion is the exiles' fault.
Indeed.
FYI, Andy Garcia's "The Lost City" is now out on DVD. I highly recommend it, it is an excellent film, that indeed shows Castro and Che in their true light.
And the film was not kind to Batista, either.
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