The left ale=ways sides with evil. That is all you need to understand.
Thanks Mark! We’ve got this one handled too.
We really dont care what Levin thinks. I’ll say this every time someone post his drivel. He actively worked to help put Hillary in the WH.
So Mark says something we didn’t already know? LOL! In a rag like “Conservative” Review?
These azz hats are so conservative they tried to cut Trump’s legs out from under him to get Clinton elected. Along with putz Levin.
Persona non-gratis, around here.
Sympathy for his movement in this country led to the U.S. announcement that it was ending military aid to Batista. Understandably, this demoralized Batista's military (still much stronger militarily than Castro), and was quickly followed by the triumphal procession of Castro from the Sierra Maestra to Havana. The message was that the United States didn't think he was too radical. So ordinary Cubans -- lacking a free press, and having nothing to go by but the propaganda of both sides -- figured they had little to fear from him either. Little did they know.
I rejoiced at the time, and continued to support Castro during the early waves of criticism. I was learning Spanish, and while in Miami listened to countless hours of regular Cuban broadcasts on the AM dial, and later in South Carolina to broadcasts on shortwave. It soon became evident, though, that Castro had lied about his intentions. (He was not “pushed” into the arms of the Soviet Union by American opposition, as some still claim. There’s good evidence from his earlier life and a closer study of the movement itself that he was a Communist all along — in thought, if not in official party membership — who used intentional deception to gather a broad range of support.)
He established a dictatorship worse than Batista’s that has lasted over half a century. He brought Cubans neither freedom nor prosperity. More than a tenth of the population has fled the country, some like the “balseros” on makeshift floating devices at great risk to their lives. In Cuba a kind of negative natural selection has taken place, with for the most part the brave and enterprising Cubans leaving, and the timid and dependent remaining.
What a tragedy for a country that under Batista had been one of the most prosperous in Latin America. True, it was in need of a better safety net for the very poor and unfortunate — which could have been accomplished with ordinary democratic reforms — but not of a radical Communist revolution. That revolution produced the usual results that we see in other parts of the globe.
Most people have the impression that Cuba was a primitive country pre-1959, so it had little to lose. Not true. According to the Economic Commission for Latin America of the United Nations, “Economic activity in Cuba during 1957 reached the highest levels of the post-war period.” [That’s with a guerrilla war taking place.] The gross product in real terms increased by “something more than 8 per cent”. Cuba was second in Latin America in consumption of electric energy. It couldn’t have just been the elite using that electricity. In Cuba there was a solid basis for prosperity and for expanding middle and upper classes. Castro’s regime destroyed that, and during the Cuban missile crisis brought the world very close to nuclear war.
Though at one time I admired Castro, and listened to so many of his speeches that I could give good imitations of him in Spanish — he had a very distinctive speaking style — I now have no regrets that he’s dead (beyond the ordinary ones I feel at the reminder of human mortality).
Turncoat creep. Blamed patriots for Soros sponsored violence in Chicago. Unpardonable.
....and don’t forget the Himmler of the Castro regime: Che “Line-em-up-against-the-wall” Guevara.
Honey Badger don't give a shit about anything National Review says anymore, and wishes people would quite posting NR links here.
The COM-Left are naked communists, pro-dictator, and revolting people urging revolutionary overthrow of our Constitutional republic.
And they own academia and the chairs of the MSM.
I listened to this tonight. His rant was fabulous.