Anti-communism continues to have a detrimental effect upon the intelligence and honesty of Americans. In April, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton stated that the Castro brothers “do not want to see an end to the embargo and do not want to see normalization with the United States because they would then lose all the excuses for what hasn’t happened in Cuba in the last 50 years.”[1]
She doesn’t believe that herself. But she thinks the rest of us are stupid enough to swallow it. If she did believe it, she’d advocate normalization of US-Cuban relations just to stick it to the Castros and show them up for the frauds she says they are. In effect the American Secretary of State declared that the central element of U.S. Cuba policy for 50 years has done exactly the opposite of what it was intended to accomplish. Washington, for all practical purposes, has been a loyal — if unwitting — ally of the Havana regime.
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton speaking at the U.N. on May 3, 2010 (Tama/Getty)
As to “what hasn’t happened in Cuba in the last 50 years” — to add to the mountain of other evidence of the benevolence of Cuban society we now have Save the Children’s “State of the World’s Mothers Report 2010″. Save the Children, an internationally acclaimed children’s advocate organization, annually ranks the best and worst places to be a mother. Amongst the 81 “Less Developed Countries” analyzed, Cuba is ranked number one; i.e., the best place to be a mother. (Amongst the 43 “More Developed Countries” analyzed, the United States is ranked number 28.)[2]
Cuban National Assembly president Ricardo Alarcon responded to Clinton’s statement by saying: “If she really thinks that the blockade benefits the Cuban government — which she wants to undermine — the solution is very simple: that they lift it even for a year to see whether it is in our interest or theirs.”[3]
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[1] Agence France Presse, April 25, 2010
[3] Agence France Presse, April 25, 2010
Stalin, Castro, Mao, Kim Jong Il, Pol Pot
The 20th Century has provided us with so many glorious Communist leaders. The rights of the foolish common man are grapes, waiting to be trampled under the pungent strength of the Marxist foot so that we may stand proud in our Socialist paradise.
Like the glorious Communist leaders of the past, let us contuine to build monuments to the glory of our movement with the mounds of corpses we create.
What did Castro ever do to get lumped in with those guys? It was America’s coup in Guatemala that led to Castro abandoning the idea of using the democratic process to change Cuban society. It was also the Dulles brothers’ refusal to recognize Castro’s government that led to Cuba’s alliance with the Soviet Union. Castro was in the midst of back channel talks with an envoy of President Kennedy in which the subject of normalization was discussed. These plans died with Kennedy.
Regardless of all of the above, there is no such thing as global communism anymore. Anyone still using specious guilt by association tactics is basically living in the last century.