I may go buy a big screen TV in his honor.
Tell it like it is, Donald. What a difference! What an improvement!
AMEN!
There are plenty of leftist scumbags mourning their hero Fidel. There’s one in the White House.
Reality Check for the left in the best way possible.
What a complete and utter idiot this writer is and he doesn’t speak for the vast majority of people his age! And this bozo isn’t even a BOOMER...his “generation”, THE WAR BABIES, was a teensy group, back then, and still are...now being lumped into our parents’ generation as well. We are neither fish nor fowl, nor good red meat, so to speak.
THEN we came to realize what Castro really was.
we had been duped!
I may go buy a big screen TV in his honor.
I once read a biography of Castro in my youth and what caught my attention was he ran Cuba like his private farm and the Cubans were his personal livestock to experiment on and to herd.
It reminded me of George Orwell’s Animal Farm. The Revolution wiped out the most decent human things in the name of equality. The island’s Communist elite has the good life and every one else lives beneath them.
Castro’s Communist prison is run more efficiently than Venezuela. But it, too is a dead end. In the end, tyrannies burn themselves out. That’s an iron law of history.
Actually, McCain is still around.
It always takes the same thing to dissuade a stupid Marxist: being mugged. In Simon’s case (and I generally like him), it was a delayed plane. \
In all the hoopla of Castro’s final meeting with the devil I have yet to read anything about the Bay of Pigs invasion.
If I recall correctly (I was a kid then), Kennedy pulled air support of the invasion at the last minute. He had a chance to prevent 50 years of oppression.
I imagine history has been rewritten since those days.
Anyone else have deeper knowledge?
The author now admits he was seduced.
How dumb do you have to be in 1959 not to see 40 years of the great destruction of Marxism around the world?
“... when I was all of fifteen and a student at Scarsdale High ..”
If you didn’t know, Scarsdale is “Middle Earth” of LIB Westchester County, in the People’s Republic of New York.
(now also home to the Carpetbaggers up in Chappaqua)
Looking back now, one can see it as a Fountain of Evil. like lots of other wealthy suburbs in the Northeast.
What is it about a little economic security turning folks into Radical, Anti American Liberals?
Now that would be the screenplay to write.
The damage these mis-guided folks have caused is Yuuuge.
Don’t ever let it happen again America.
That’s a revelation to me that Roger Simon looked up to Fidel as a hero. Even more sad is the fact that it took him so long to finally come to his senses.
Did Obama pass today?
I’m from NYC and I remember Fidel’s ticker tape parade up Broadway. People thought he was wonderful, a liberator - although Batista had actually been a reformer and had built some of the new infrastructure in Cuba.The country actually had the third highest literacy rate in the Americas (just behind the US and Canada) before Fidel took over and destroyed it all.
Fidel and his entourage stayed in Harlem and distinguished themselves by slaughtering a few chickens in their rooms (some of his simpler followers practiced santeria) and generally behaving in a bizarre, hostile manner.
Fidel was from a well-off Lebanese-Cuban family and had had every privilege and basically just used these people. Probably most of them later died either fleeing or in jail, once he’d gotten what he wanted out of them.
Like any leftist, such as the current Pope, whose heart is broken by the death of Fidel, he was all about himself and destroyed anybody who got in his way...but with pious words about the “revolution.”
I would suspect that he died and went directly to Hell. With apologies to Obama and the Pope, who should bear this in mind.
The pope is shockingly in mourning over this dictator torturer oppressor killer. ...