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Castro has several thousand experts trained in East Germany and the former Soviet Union in bacteriological and chemical warfare and several dozen advanced centers of research 90 miles from our shores. Castro sold one of those laboratories to the Iranians. Cuba has a lot to share with their Iranian counterparts involved in the development of weapons of mass destruction. Remember 9/11 and don't fool yourself, Castro tried to nuke our cities once and he has pledged to destroy the U.S. Beware! we are dealing with a pathological mass murderer.

I think you are overselling both the zeal and the capability with which Cuba exports their Marxist Revolution these days. IMO, they are sliding comfortably into an old fashioned Latin American style despotism bent on making the big money. Even the Russians, Chinese, East Germans and Vietnamese dumped their "old millenium" marketing programs for a fresher dictatorship structure, and Castro was never that fond of the Russians after the checks stopped coming in the mail anyway. Besides, he has WAY better beaches, casinos, climate, agricultural capacity and a far more dutiful and attractive service staff than they ever will.

I hate Castro, our defensive assets and economic sanctions aimed at him are valid, but I'm not concerned about the Cubans plotting a chemical or germ assault on us. They want our gambling and tourism business, or at least to retain the Canadian and European business they already have.

Incidentally, the East Germans were not involved in the development of chemical and biological weapons after the War, in fact Markus Wolf, the head of the East German STASI and THE most powerful man in post War Germany (East AND West) - perhaps Europe - did all he could to sabotage movement of these weapons from Britain, the Soviet Union and Germany to regimes like Cuba, China, Libya, North Korea, South Africa, Indonesia and Syria throughout the 50s, 60s and 70s. He understood and appreciated the benefits to world security of the nuclear standoff between the superpowers, but he greatly feared what the proliferation of these other deadly weapons would entail. By the way, in his book "Man Without a Face", Wolf says many times he never believed that Castro was ever a Marxist or a committed revolutionary ... he thought him a thug using his proximity to America to fleece the Soviets and maintain complete control of the Cuban people. I think that's about right.