The Castro brothers, former president Fidel and current president Raoul, released some political prisoners, but promptly arrested more in an in-your-face gesture to Obama.Īfter all, doesn’t Cuba have the best health care system in the Western Hemisphere, if not the world? That, at least, was what Michael Moore and Oliver Stone tried strenuously to make us believe. The real reason for changing our policy toward Cuban communism, of course, is sympathy with its allegedly worthy goals and pro-forma objection to its vicious methods of achieving them. The ostensible reason for this radical break in policy was that isolation and sanctions “don’t work.” But Franklin Roosevelt’s recognition of the Soviet Union and Jimmy Carter’s similar action toward Red China did nothing to mitigate the evils of those regimes - and will not in the present case either. This trend reached its zenith in the presidential administration of Barack Obama, who lately reversed 60 years of American opposition to Castro’s tyranny by doing everything within his power to end Cuba’s “isolation” and our government’s economic sanctions against it.

Of course, it could be found also among the professoriate.įollowing the left’s “long march” through American institutions, worship of Fidel Castro ultimately became sacred writ among leading men and women in the government, academia, the mass media and Hollywood. I was an undergraduate in those days, sitting in the cafeteria or elsewhere on campus and being subjected to Castro worship. Reams of mindless published cant and hours of annoying chatter were the consequence. That Castro finally admitted the truth did nothing to shake the left’s faith. This was the seedbed for both old and new leftists that Castro should be kept in power and the American government prevented from removing the evil. For at least two years the fiction was maintained that Castro was neither a communist nor a Soviet puppet.

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