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To: Hawkmoon who wrote (176654)	12/1/2005 9:27:54 AM
From: Wharf Rat	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

We are talking about this, remember? "permitting intransigent and aggressivly hostile totalitarian states (who mind you, have utter contempt for democratic institutions such as the UN) create international DISORDER and lawlessness." That is the US." What Castro does or doesn't do has no bearing on how my country is seen thruout the world. The onliest differences between him and dictators we support are that he ain't our SOB, he is 90 miles from Fla, he played baseball, and there are a lot of Cubans in Miami who want to go home. Absent that, Castro wouldn't even make the newspapers., unless he had stuck with his baseball career. But, that's not to say there aren't things we could learn from Cuber. They certainly do hurricanes better than we do. They may well be the role model for the world on how to exist in an oil-scarce economy. And they certainly do PR better than us; Castro looked a lot better than Shrub after Katrina than Shrub did; the former offered help, the latter turned it down. They obviously do PR better than us. "Yeah.. I know about people like you.. You've empowered Dictators around the world " Go back and look at the list of dictators our country has empowered. Including the Taliban. Not me; not other lefties; the gvt of the USof A. ttp://www.omnicenter.org/warpeacecollection/dictators.htm Rat