Well that explains it. I knew there had to be a reason for people by the thousands risking their lives in leaky homemade boats trying to leave Amerikkka and somehow get to Cuban utopian paradise.
Well, the hawkish policies of the Carter administration were a radicalizing experience for everyone. Carter took weeks to gut our military and intelligence agencies. He took months to undermine our closest ally in the Middle East and hand Iran over to terrorist (oops, extremist) anti-American Islamists. And it was years before that treaty got around to handing the Panama Canal to that authentic Latin American man of the people Manuel Noriega. I don't even want to talk about the strongly worded letters Carter wrote to Breschnyev when the USSR crushed the Solidarity Movement in Poland and invaded Afghanistan - how insulting to our comrades!
Yep, those right-wing Carter years would have prompted any right thinking American to hop on the treason bandwagon. Problem solved. No need to consider the possibility that the State Department is riddled with leftists sympathetic to our enemies.
//sarc