<<From your profile it looks like you were still in grade school at the time. So maybe you didn't know how bad it was under Batista. Castro was welcomed by the Cuban people.
...That tells me a lot about which country is more satisfied with its leaders.
Our government has done a superb job of brainwashing its people about Cuba. Has been doing it for thirty years. But history is on Cuba's side>>
Chris
I thought you didn't have any objective knowledge about how things are in Cuba?
Not slaves, huh? What about the Mariel boat people that Castro dumped here, many of whom ended up at Fort Chaffee in Arkansas? Sounds like Castro was pleased to ship his own "citizens/prisoners" out of their country. Just like the African chieftains sold out their tribesmen/prisoners 400 hundred years before. Your comment about Cubans not being slaves because Castro hasn't tried to sell them on the open market is just the kind of legal sophistry that is so pernicious today.
Your apology for Cuba, a pariah in the world economy and a political slave camp, is the pathetic and trite propaganda of an old lefty fellow traveler from of the 30's. Sounds like you've not lost a step since then.
BTW, Chris, I was 10 in 1959-1960 when Castro came to power, but now, I am an educated man who has read the history. And, it seems to me that the Castro totalitarian "cure" for the Battista "disease" of corruption is far worse.
And speaking of brainwashing, it seems to me that you're the one who's brainwashed about Cuba. That "history is on Cuba's side" argument is straight out of Hegel. A "good" dictator replaces a "bad" dictator, It's still a dictatorship! What about the "human rights" of the Cuban people under Castro. They can't leave their country unless they risk everything. Frankly, the US is lucky to have people like that seeking asylum in our country.
But, what do I know, having never lived in the worker's paradise of Cuba,the jewel of the Greater Antilles.
Ciao,
Daniel |
