Face it - Castro's a Tyrant** Gone also, by the way, is any persuasive argument that the United Nations has relevance in the fight for governmental decency in this world. Its Human Rights Commission winked at Castro's latest depravity, saying only that a U.N. representative should visit the island to see what's up. Stay out, Cuba replied.
So what's to be done? Simply extending the U.S. embargo from here to eternity is unlikely to achieve much, but neither is it consonant with the lessons of history that rewarding criminals stops crime. At the least, voices must rise in fierce condemnation, and from all over the civilized world. The dissidents must be encouraged, their tormentors excoriated. The free world must not let go of its outrage, but beat the drum regularly, turning to other sanctions if effective, humane ones can be found, while insistently seeking the release of all Castro's political prisoners and the demise of his government by thuggery.***
Fidel Castro - Cuba
To: Cincinatus' Wife
Harkin could care less for the imprisoned in Cuba
what a pantload of a liar he is
To: Cincinatus' Wife
He should have taken Jesse (jackass jerkson that is) with him.
3 posted on
04/24/2003 1:56:36 PM PDT by
boomop1
To: Cincinatus' Wife
Ah, Dungheapius Harkinus shows his disingenuous concern for the downtrodden. Don't you feel all warm and fuzzy?
4 posted on
04/24/2003 1:57:26 PM PDT by
Artem55
To: Cincinatus' Wife
He'll have as much luck as Carter did last year.
To: Cincinatus' Wife; Luis Gonzalez; JohnHuang2
After Castro has 3 dissidents executed, Harkin goes to Cuba to demand that Castro turn over a new leaf and free a few of the survivors. Whadda guy.
Their bodies are still warm in their graves and Harkin is already trying to grant Castro favors such as an end to our embargo on Cuba.
9 posted on
04/24/2003 2:14:32 PM PDT by
Southack
(Media bias means that Castro won't be punished for Cuban war crimes against Black Angolans in Africa)
To: Cincinatus' Wife
Harkin in Cuba, the same week Bill and Hillary meeting with the President of the Dominican Republic, and the same week Galloway went to his home in Portugal.
Somebody needs to store this for future terrorist attacks or boatloads of folks around election time.
To: Cincinatus' Wife
Harkin: "Fidel, please free the dissidents."
Fidel: "No."
Harkin: "Well, I tried. Can I have a cigar now?"
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