Dean's World

Thanks Dean.

I cant even begin to tell you how desperate and hopeless I felt when as I saw the video of the dissidents and their fellow protesters being beaten and manhandled by Castro's thugs.

One woman in particular screamed directly into the camera "Fidel! This is your home!" over and over and over again. It occured to me that people like that woman are willfully blind and willfully ignorant. Despite all evidence to the contrary - she is so brainwashed that she truly believe that Cuba is fidel castro and that fidel castro actually gives a rat's ass about her and the people of Cuba.

A related post regarding the 13 de Marzo tugboat incident is here.

The honor of the United States was disgraced in April 1961 when the Kennedy administration arranged for the CIA to send some 1400 incredibly brave fighting men of Brigade 2506 to land on the shore of Cuba, then foolishly sent them to invade at night at one of the worst locations on that island, and then treacherously denied these men the air cover they needed to get their supplies ashore and begin a serious national struggle against Castro's communist regime.

Had John Kennedy, along with his ubiquitous brother Robert, and their all-bullshit/no-substance administration kept their promise to the Cuban freedom fighters, there would have been no subsequent Cuban missile crisis in October 1962, a crisis that came close to burning up this planet in massive thermonuclear fires of a war with the Soviet Union.

But the promise was not kept. Cuba was sold into permanent communist slavery as part of Kennedy's deal with Nikita Khrushchev for the Soviets to remove their nuclear-tipped missiles from that nearby island.

Of equal significance, it was the beginning of the time this country never again fully kept its word in following through on foreign military adventures into which sundry other administrations led the people of this country. I cannot help but think that our fighting men in Viet Nam were made to lose that war as part of the pattern of sell-outs that began that fateful week in April 1961, when men whom the United States had purposely recruited, trained and sent into combat were sold out into death, destruction, surrender and imprisonment by the faithless government of a feckless superpower.

I do not care much for Cubans, whom I admit I know little or nothing about, because I have hostilities toward the Caribbean cultures of which they form a major constituent part. I apologize for nothing, and I owe nobody any particular explanation for my feelings on this.

But I have the highest regard, almost to the point of reverence, for the military virtues of brave fighting men, whether they be our friends or enemies, but especially if they are our own men. Brigade 2506 was organized among the best of the best of the Cuban fighting men, and they were organized by our government, for our national purposes as well as theirs.

It was a foolish act to drop their convoy of invasion ships at the Bay of Pigs rather than near the city of Trinidad as planned by the military advisors whom our government had assigned to plan and guide their expeditionary force landing.

It was even more foolish to land those men there on that beach at the dead of night.

And it was utter treachery to first promise them air support from the aircraft carriers of the nearby United States Navy after it had been promised them.

All this was an act of foolishness and treachery that we have paid for hundreds of times over in the succeeding 44 years. Because in the eyes of our international enemies, we have never quite regained our reputation in the world.

So the time has come to honor the memory of the men whom we as much as the communist regime of Cuba killed those few days at the Bay of Pigs.

And we can only honor those brave men by doing everything possible to assisting the Cuban people to overthrow their tyrannical regime.

Even now, after all this time, after so many decades of mass imprisonments on that island; decades of executions of innocent victims; decades of repressions without end; decades of outright thefts of the basic liberties of an entire people; decades of a dictator who has sold the womanhood of his own country into open prostitution for the sake of earning foreign currency. It is not too late to end all that. And that can only be done with guns.

Then and only then, will our debt to the Cubans shall have been repaid; those Cubans whose destiny this country has repeatedly involved itself in for some 120 years and whose island we have frequently looted for our own economic advantage. If we owe them anything at all, we above all owe them freedom from the tyranny that we neglectfully and treacherously allowed to settle in on their homeland.

Arnold Harris
Mount Horeb WI

I agree with Arnold Harris completely. The betrayal at the Bay of Pigs does mark a downward turning point in America's strategic stance, from which we have never yet quite recovered. Earlier than that, in 1956, our government: 1) sat on our hands while Kruschev crushed the freedom fighters of Hungary and sent schoolgirls in boxcars to slave-labor camps in Siberia, and 2) seized the Suez Canal from our French and British allies and handed it over to our Soviet-backed Muslim enemies in order to curry favor with them.

As to Viet Nam, in 1965 Hillaire du Berrier wrote an excellent book, Background to Betrayal: The Tragedy of Vietnam.

He concluded:
"....All the force of America's massed left are regimented to silence those who would tell America the truth."

SMA, the idea is hardly original.

All over eastern Europe, young village women use clean rags for this purpose, and simply wash them out after their period is over. They aren't living in lush consumer societies where people can afford to waste good money on stuff like that. And the old-fashioned way is just as hygenic, my wife assures me.

Only in countries like America do they make specialized rags sold for the exclusive purpose of shoving into a body cavity to absorb the monthly menstruals.

As for the commie bosses of Cuba, after they fall from power, I would catch them one at a time, tie their hands behind their backs, then stuff the bloody rags in their mouths while their hands were tied behind their backs.

Then let them stand there for a while, acting firstly as symbolic for all the Cubans they murdered shortly after Fidel's revolution and building his dictatorship of the stupid, vicious, power-hungry and incompetant; and secondarily as the whore-masters who have driven so many otherwise honest and honorable Cuban women into prostitution in their lust for tourist currency to make up for the fact that no communist has ever created a viable economy.

You don't think I would really do something as cruel as that, if I had the chance? Guess again. I can be real fucking vindictive when I think it's justified.

Arnold Harris
Mount Horeb WI

I'm not at all the man and 1/2. That's Solomon Mason. You've got to be a hero to earn such a mark of respect. And all I do these days is flap my lip on blogsites.

Fact is, SMA, my wife is working on me to become 3/4 man, by losing another two dozen pounds.

Arnold Harris
Mount Horeb WI