I’ve never been a fan of Fidel Castro. I’ve never been convinced that he’s the worst monster ever, either. He strikes me as a guy who has been hypocritical about a lot of things and who, like every other communist leader I can think of, ultimately failed to deliver on his promises. Repression and communism are not cleavable. But the truth is that I don’t care about Cuba. If my parents had fled Cuba, I’d feel differently. But my parents fled Iowa and Michigan, so I don’t care much at all about what goes on in Havana. I think I ought to be able to travel there and spend my money however I see fit, but I have no desire to actually travel there. The Cold War is over; the communists lost. We should all get over the whole Bay of Pigs, exploding cigar madness that almost resulted in a nuclear holocaust. Just say ‘bygones’ and start selling each other a bunch of crap.
Nevertheless, I have to admit that Fidel’s on point here:
Cuba’s Fidel Castro weighed in on the GOP field Wednesday ahead of next week’s Florida GOP primary vote.
The former Cuban leader, 85, whose 1959 Communist takeover of the island nation prompted the exodus of many of those whose families now comprise Florida’s politically influential Cuban American community, took to official state media organs to blast the Republican primary contest, the Associated Press’s man in Havana Paul Haven reported.“The selection of a Republican candidate for the presidency of this globalized and expansive empire is—and I mean this seriously—the greatest competition of idiocy and ignorance that has ever been,” Castro wrote in an opinion column carried by a Cuban state paper, Haven wrote.
I couldn’t have said it better.
