Posted on 02/16/2003 1:35:04 AM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
Undated handout shows the Cuban President Fidel Castro, left, and U.S. director Oliver Stone, right, whose movie 'Commandante' will be shown on Friday, Feb.14, 2003 in the Panorama section of the 53rd Berlinale movie festival in Berlin. The festival starts on Feb. 6 and lasts until Feb. 16, 2003. 300 movies from all over the world will be shown at the 53rd Berlinale. (AP Photo/Berlinale, HO) NO SALES
That's nothin, many of ours are sittin in Congress.
"I would try to get on with him in the same way ... Who knows who he is. The American media makes him into a monster."
"Who knows who he is?" Well, you know....aside from that whole invasion, mass murder, mustard gas, rape, looting, disappearing political enemies and their families and letting his sons kill Iraqi Olympic athletes who did not medal in their events thing, he's a prince, a real sweetheart.
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Castro, the Carribean, and Terrorism
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Still, scholars say they wish Bush would tone down his religious references. ''The more I listen to him, the more truly worried I become about the vision for this country in the world,'' said Hurst Hannum, a professor of international law at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University. ''It's so American-centric, so Christian-centric. It's so certain. I guess I worry about anyone who is that sure he is right.'' When Bush told the religious broadcasters that he welcomes faith to solve the nation's problems, C. Welton Gaddy, president of the Interfaith Alliance in Washington, said he asked himself, ''Whose faith?''***
Yes, God ( oh! that word! ) forbid anyone believe in a power higher than himself...
Still, scholars say they wish Bush would tone down his religious references. ''The more I listen to him, the more truly worried I become about the vision for this country in the world,'' said Hurst Hannum, a professor of international law at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University. ''It's so American-centric, so Christian-centric. It's so certain. I guess I worry about anyone who is that sure he is right.'' When Bush told the religious broadcasters that he welcomes faith to solve the nation's problems, C. Welton Gaddy, president of the Interfaith Alliance in Washington, said he asked himself, ''Whose faith?''***
What has always absorbed me about Fidel's fans in the West is not that they settled their admiration on such absurd deceptions as Communism's superior health care and -- even more absurd -- superior educational systems. Can one really have education without freedom? I said education, not indoctrination. Rather, what intrigues me is his fans' terms of praise. Fidel has been sexy, witty, shy, kindly, idealistic, and on into the wild blue yonder of idiocy. Now why would one say such things about a brutal dictator who made no effort to conceal his hatred of the American system of government and economics, a system that in its worst moments still was infinitely superior to Fidel's Communism? ***
No, it's an abysmal failure of the 'revolution' that they're prostitutes.
Psychologists may be better able than political scientists to explain why many American liberals idealize foreign dictatorships with institutions or values that they find horrifying in milder forms in the United States. For some reason, many American leftists who loathe the military are not troubled by the fact that Castro appears in public only in a military uniform. American liberals somehow manage to support gay rights in the United States while ignoring Castro's vicious campaigns against homosexuality, which he has defined as a "bourgeois perversion" American liberals fret about the FBI and Internet censorship, while calling for the United States to befriend a regime where culture and religion are rigidly controlled by the secret police.
American liberals opposed to the death penalty often discover charisma in this Cuban caudillo who has frequently resorted to the firing squad to eliminate his opponents. Liberals who mock the "family values" and law-and-order rhetoric of the right, suddenly discovered the importance of family values and law and order when applauding Janet Reno's seizure and deportation of Elian Gonzalez to Cuba (where he is now being programmed like other Cuban children to revere Castro and hate the United States).
As we saw during the Elian incident, liberals who would be offended by stereotypes about Mexicans or Haitians feel free to smear Cuban-Americans as a group. Last but not least, many liberals who want to stamp out sexism and smoking in their own country find themselves titillated by a macho despot whose characteristic prop is a phallic cigar.
Can anyone seriously doubt that, if Castro were a right-wing military dictator rather than a self-described socialist, American liberals would be demanding internationally supervised free elections in Cuba, calling for tighter sanctions to bring down the regime, and perhaps even demanding an international invasion to free the Cuban people?
Unfortunately, from the Bolshevik coup d'etat in Russia in 1917 until the present, all too many liberals and leftists in the United States and Europe have been willing to excuse murderous dictators such as Castro who have used the magic word "socialism" to describe their despotic rule. Even now, some gullible liberals still excuse Castro's vicious autocracy by falling for the regime's propaganda about universal literacy and free health care. (As was the case in the Soviet Union and East Germany, the glowing official reports about Cuban schools and hospitals will almost certainly turn out to be lies).
Few on the American left anymore defend Lenin, Stalin or Mao, who between them starved or executed almost a hundred million of their own people in the 20th century. But their murderous disciple Fidel Castro can still inspire a flutter in the hearts of many American liberals who are willing to withdraw their objections to tyranny when the tyrant claims to be on the left. *** WHY THE DOUBLE STANDARD FOR CASTRO?
No, it's an abysmal failure of the 'revolution' that they're prostitutes.
Why did it take sixteen posts for someone to state the obvious?
Oh, there all the same, shortcomings as a father and torturing homosexuals, "Now Miguel, go to your cell without dinner!"
Some moral relativists are so perverted in their thinking.
F Oliver Stone, the Vietnam Veteran.
I think what he means is that women with universtiy degrees have to go into prostitution to find work.
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