Ash Heap Dead Ahead

IBD Editorials ^ | 22 Feb 2007 | Editorial staff

[Kitten Festival]

Tyrannies: Neither Zimbabwe's grotesque 83rd birthday party for Robert Mugabe nor Fidel Castro's latest TV appearance conceals what is really before our eyes as the two regimes celebrate: a specter of disintegration.

That trouble is brewing in both Havana and Harare is obvious with the expulsion Thursday of Chicago Tribune reporter Gary Marx from Cuba. Instead of his open-eyed reporting, we now are reduced to press releases about Mugabe not feeling a day older and what brand jogging suit Castro is wearing.

Such rubbish conceals the rapidly unfolding collapse in the two communist regimes, both of which are going down the same way.

Adhering for decades to "the Marxist model," they preserved a facade of being normal states, and plenty of collaborators in the community of nations went along with it.

The United Nations had endless criticisms of Israel, but little to say about regimes like Cuba and Zimbabwe, unless it was to dish praise. But this won't stop the inevitable fall, which is showing not in street riots but in the discontent of higher-tier regime loyalists.

Zimbabwe's and Cuba's economies are not only reaching the limits of sustainability — a terrible fate for Cubans and Zimbabweans. The ruin has progressed far enough to reach the cosseted and protected leaders who brought it. A sated parasite is reaching its host.

[Kitten Festival]

Time is running out on the world's vilest tyrants.

[Dog Gone]

What both of these nations are lacking is a modern version of George Washington. Without him, their finish will take much longer.

[ParaVet93]

You'd never know this if you get your news from ABC/NBC/CBS/NPR/AP/CNN/NYT/LAT/BG. You also cant get this from Fox News because they are too busy covering the ANS corpse war. It's not wasy finding out what is really going on in the world.

[Wally_Kalbacken]

It's a nice break for Gary Marx. Even a cold February in Chicago has to be better than spending time in Castro's Cuba.

[StormEye]

"Meanwhile, some 480 Cuban doctors posted around the hemisphere as Castro's PR agents have fled their posts for asylum in the U.S., flooding U.S. embassies and bringing more brain drain."

Of course Americans never heard this mentioned by ABC,
NBC, CBS, CNN, MSNBC, WashPost, NYTimes, etc. Wonder why?

[neverdem]

bttt

[Silly]

Thought this was a Hillary thread. Sorry.

[Billthedrill]

These tyrannies are finished.

They might buy a little time if Huey Chavez decides to bankroll them, but basically yes, they are. Venezuela is on the beginning of the very same road, and North Korea is at its end.

[MaDeuce]

"They might buy a little time if Huey Chavez decides to bankroll them, but basically yes, they are. Venezuela is on the beginning of the very same road, and North Korea is at its end."

No ... your wrong. These tin-horn dictators will be getting a new breath of life form the new liberal US gov't and the capitulating EU. If and when the dems capture the White House in 2008 and hold the congress, Castro and Castro wan-a-bees will be propped up by the dems with "humanitarian aid". We will cut deals with Chavez and the terrorist for oil and peace.

It is not the dictators that are finished ... it is we who are finished. Freedom and Liberty is finished.

[Kitten Festival]

LOL!!!!!