[CitizenM]

Duh! I was really going to go to bed. Then I read this. Oh, that petty little demon Castro. Remember when PJPII went there and Castro wore a suit? Everyone thought it was out of respect. IMHO I always figured Castro was just plain frightened of the Pope. He knew where he was going to go when he (Castro himself) died, so he was trying very hard to get a little good grace from John Paul,II. It was for a personal reason, not out of political/official respect.

Now he has turned that visit into one of support of communism?! LOL, tell that to the party that held Poland. Oh the poor people of Cuba, they are so cut off from the world, it is like they are on another planet. What will happen when Castro dies? When reality reaches them they will go bezerk with confusion.

[GretchenM]

A commentator on Fox said the other day that when Pope John Paul II went to Cuba and met with Castro, it was, well, he said, about as close as he'd ever seen Castro looking like he wanted to go to confession.

"What will happen when Castro dies? When reality reaches them they will go bezerk with confusion."

From things the Bush administration have said over his term in office about Cuba, it sounds to me like our government has been addressing the situation in Cuba for some time, for this very contingency, and that we don't plan to stand idly by and let cruelty rise up at the top unopposed. How, you say? I don't know. I just have gotten that impression.