The Fascist Beast of Havana

[Zorro]

Fidel Castro has been one of the cruelest dictators in living memory. He has also been the longest-"serving." What has Castro served? Repression, torture, and murder. He seized power in January 1959. He is now "retiring," just short of his 50th year in power. His golden jubilee will surely be marked, regardless; seldom have 50 years been less golden or more awful.

Castro and his fellow revolutionaries overthrew a bad regime, that of the dictator Fulgencio Batista. Castro installed a much worse regime, with himself at its head. Before taking over, Castro promised an open and democratic society with respect for all people. He immediately betrayed that promise - and imprisoned many of his comrades who clung to the democratic dream. Others managed to flee to the United States.

Castro has always ruled under the label of Communist, and he has indeed run a Communist regime. But some of those who know him well say he was never a Communist - always a fascist, right from the beginning: a psychopathic fascist. By the time he came to power, fascism was discredited, so Castro rode the Communist wave. What he has been is a thug and a dictator, demanding absolute power.

Senator Fulbright said famously that Castro "is a thorn in the flesh," but not "a dagger in the heart." That may be true as far as the United States is concerned, although Castro allowed his territory to serve as a base for Soviet missiles, nuclear dagger pointed at the heart of America. He also supported Communist insurgencies around the world. He has unquestionably been a dagger in the heart of the Cuban people. His economic policies have immiserated them. And when his subjects have dared to dissent, he has dealt with them ruthlessly: His prisons are full.

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/the-fascist-beast-of-havana/

[Mika]

1. You bring the sputum from the National Review here?

Sarah Palin puts together more reasonable word salads than this piece of horse shit.


Here's some examples of critiques ... from DU.


Pathetic.

[Zorro]

4. Here's a suggestion

Translate the article into Spanish.

Make 10,000 copies.

Stand on a Havana streetcorner and hand them out.

Tell us what happens.

[Judi Lynn]

6. Speaking of fascist beasts, Lucianne Goldberg's little sonny boy Jonah works there, doesn't he?

She was the one who coached Linda Tripp on how to deal with Monica Lewinsky as they planned the sabotage of Bill Clinton, using the always lovely Monica Lewinsky to do their work for them.

If it weren't for Lucianne, Jonah would still be sitting in her basement still, instead of writing at National Review.

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[bemildred]

7. Please don't bring up Jonah.

It's bad enough running into him in the LA Times.

Shallow thinking and bad prose, it's always worth avoiding.

[bemildred]

2. Drool, not well done drool either.

They don't make bigger assholes than Batista.

[Bacchus4.0]

3. He'll be dead soon enough. n/t

[roody]

5. You don't have to look far or long to find much crueler

dictators than Fidel.