[Cincinatus' Wife]

Flashback: CNN Doing Castro favors, just like Saddam (Original Title: "A Protest in the Dark: Arrested Cuban dissidents feel betrayed by CNN ")

[Cincinatus' Wife]

Chatterbox: Fidel Castro, Book Critic - Foreign Policy magazine buffs a dictator's image.*** Foreign Policy has spiffed itself up lately, and as a result the magazine is much livelier and thought-provoking than it used to be. Gibney notes, correctly, that running Castro's review does not imply any sort of endorsement. "We'd run a movie review by Kim Jong-il if we felt it might shed some useful light on his thinking and personality," Gibney says. (Next month: Idi Amin reviews The Lovely Bones!) On reflection, Chatterbox can't really dispute that it's interesting to learn what dictators do in their spare time. But that doesn't let Foreign Policy off the hook. A movie review by Kim Jong-il couldn't enable any widespread belief that Kim is some sort of philosopher-king, because no such belief exists. It's different, alas, with Castro. Many people think of Castro as some sort of Latin Papa Hemingway, and the publication of this review will only encourage them to go on believing it.***

[Teetop]

"Perhaps Carter feels that antagonizing dictators is counterproductive. But there are times when silence equals consent -- and this is one of them."

Of course Jimmy Carter consents to what Castro has done.
I wouldn't lose a bit of sleep over us bombing Fidel. Who is going to come to his "rescue" now? Might as well bomb him now, the socialist are already up in arms over Iraq, just look at them at the protests!

[Mr. Mojo]

Where are you now, Fidelistas?

Oh, they're still there. ...especially the Hollywood variety. Castro will always be the darling of the left, and the brutality of his rule will always be duly ignored.

[Tailgunner Joe]

bttt

[js1138]

Where are you now, Fidelistas?

Running the show at MIT, that's where.

[nicmarlo]

Possible end to Cuban embargo.
U.S. politicians, farm groups, and citizens join to end trade sanctions.
February 2002

Despite the Bush administration’s hard-line stance on continuing the U.S.'s 40-year-old embargo against Cuba, it appears domestic support is quickly waning.

Over the past several months, thousands of Americans have traveled from the U.S. to Cuba -- including congressional representatives, academics, and business leaders. Recently, U.S. Representatives from California; including Diane Watson (D.-CA), Sam Farr (D.-CA), Mike Thompson (D.-CA) and Bob Filner (D.-CA), traveled to Cuba to meet with Cuban President Fidel Castro and other government officials to discuss increased trade between the two nations....

.....When queried about the Bush administration's continued support for the embargo, Rep. Watson told the AP, "That might be the executive branch's view, but that is not the legislative branch's, and we make policy."