Delusions about a Dictator

Frontpagemag ^ | 08/27/10 | Humberto Fontova

[DFG]

Recently, reports have surfaced indicating that the Obama administration plans to revive efforts to ease the ban on travel to the communist dictatorship of Cuba. This is in keeping with the conventional leftist wisdom on Cuba, which holds that engagement is key to softening the attitude of the country’s despot, Fidel Castro. In fact, this fetish for engagement with Castro began before he was even in office:

“Me and my staff were all Fidelistas.” (Robert Reynolds, the CIA’s “Caribbean Desk’s specialist on the Cuban Revolution” from 1957-1960.)

“Everyone in the CIA and everyone at State was pro-Castro, except [Republican] Ambassador Earl Smith.” (CIA operative in Santiago Cuba, Robert Weicha.)

[Izzy Dunne]

One might call it “constructive engagement”, which the Left opposed so much in South Africa.

[WellyP]

May the good people of Cuba have the pleasure of doing to the Castros, their famalies and their supporting cast of thugs what the good people of Romania did to Nicolae Ceausescu, his family and those who kept him in power.

[kabumpo]

thanks —sadly, I think thee are more thugs thatn “good people” now.

[kabumpo]

thanks —sadly, I think thee are more thugs thatn “good people” now.

[himno hero]

Do you like conspiracies?

And if you like conspiracies about him effecting a takeover look no further!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Jhx_2TqffE
and
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RJzU056ccV4&NR=1

Then reconcile the two separate accounts and formulate a opinion and let me know....