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To: Cincinatus' Wife
Despite the huge changes that the 1959 revolution made in Cuban society, some social problems have not been completely eliminated

Yeah, like how to eliminate the basic desire for freedom that all human beings are born with....

22 posted on 02/17/2003 2:33:06 AM PST by freebilly (Why do Republicans play hardball like little girls...?)
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To: freebilly
Yeah, like how to eliminate the basic desire for freedom that all human beings are born with....

Delighting in the Dictator*** In the late 1970s the American writer Sally Quinn returned from Cuba having found it an Isle of Eros. Said she of the country that then housed thousands of political prisoners in dirty cells and torture chambers, "an attitude of sexuality is as pervasive in Cuba as the presence of Fidel Castro. You can feel sex in the atmosphere." Former Democratic presidential candidate George McGovern bounced around the Cuban countryside with Fidel in a jeep and survived to tell of it. Said he of a man who even then was sending arms and soldiers around the world to support Communist terror and oppose American policy, Fidel is "soft-spoken, shy, sensitive, sometimes witty….I frankly, liked him." And Senator Lowell Weicker, the Republican ever on the prowl for a presidential nomination, launched this line certain to illuminate his presidential qualifications. "Castro's been known to snow people but he didn't snow me," Weicker asseverated. He spoke of Fidel's "enormous intellect and idealism" -- yes, idealism! He questioned why the United States did not take Fidel's side, the side of progress.***

25 posted on 02/17/2003 2:44:09 AM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
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