Posted on 11/28/2016 10:05:05 AM PST by i88schwartz
New York Times Pentagon correspondent Helene Cooper said Sunday on NBC's Meet the Press that the American people see Castro as a "satanic demon" but that President Obama's statement accurately reflected what the world thinks. Cooper said Obama's statement expressed the "ambivalence" the rest of the world feels about Castro. The Times scribe praised Castro's role in taking down apartheid in South Africa, a regime she noted that the U.S. was propping up.
"What President Obama's statement reflects is that nobody in the rest of the world sort of agrees with you," Cooper told her fellow MTP guests.
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America-centric as pejorative? Nice try, honey. The tail don’t wag the dog.
The “rest of the world” just wishes they could afford to have the American view of world affairs where the US can tell somebody to kiss our rosy red rectums and make them like it. As to Castro/Cuba’s role in South Africa being a selling point, SA is rapidly turning into another Turd-World crap-hole so how’s that working out for ya?
Well what about the Cubans in Florida who escaped Castro’s socialist paradise?
Surprisingly, she is correct. All you have to do is IGNORE Castro’s firing squads, his overcrowded prisons, his torture chambers, the hunger of his people, the thousands who risked their very lives escaping in rafts and rickety boats to flee the island “Paradise”, the thousands who actually died in the attempt, and his willingness to risk being the cause of a nuclear that would have wiped his country from the face of the world.
Exactly what the N.Y.Times would think.
'America hating' works for liberal elites and the press that kisses their butts.
We will view Castro as we damn well please. Stupid mouthoffs like this only add to the mud created by AntiAmerican Globalists who pretend to be authorities on the subject.
The New York Times is fake news with a full stable of losers to write it.
South Africa’s forces fought the Cubans in Angola to a strategic draw at the least. The Cuban general in charge of the Angolan mission (Ochoa?) was shot by Castro after their forces returned home.
I should think most Americans have a fairly America-centric view of things.
Helene Cooper happens to be a native of Liberia.
BTW, I know a brilliant patent attorney who is a native of Liberia. She is probably the best I’ve ever worked with, and I’ve worked with at least a dozen.
The American left loves them a murdering commie thug!
Welcome to America (or not)
The “American-Centric” view Of Cuba would be the majority few in Cuba if the proponents of that view were allowed to remain alive.
She’s porcine, too.
I have no ambivalence at all toward the death of an evil totalitarian dictator who murdered tens of thousands and enslaved an entire country for six decades.
If the left wants to draw a parallel with South Africa, does that mean they are saying from some valid perspectives Apartheid’s oppression of the majority of the people was okay? I didn’t think they believed that. Or are they saying that, as with Apartheid, supporting Castro was immoral, but the left supported Fidel anyways because Castro claimed to be leftist as he oppressed almost everyone instead of claiming to be on the right while oppressing almost everyone.
Liberals love to belittle foreign peoples by saying that they are happier living the way they do, and things like freedom and liberty just confuse them and make them uncomfortable.
Just like they used to belittle slaves, that freedom would just confuse them, and left to their own devices they would starve.
Oh, so we can’t have a view? LMAO
Leftists, more stupid than you thought...
As opposed to an even narrower black-centric of everything. Hey, honey, think of American-centric as the Trump version of “Stronger Together.”
There’s the America-centric way of looking at things, and then there’s the Colin Kaepernick-centric way of looking at things.
Kaepernick’s a dumb schmuck. And anyone who share’s his views is a dumb schmuck too.
Wouldn’t it be nice to treat the Left to a little taste of Alinksyesque ridicule, by elevating “Kaepernick-centric” as the main adjective to describe Liberal thought in any political debate?
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