Dean's World

...and I way without a trace of pity that I hope he dies a horribly pain-filled, fear-filled, and lonely death.

Actually, I hope he dies surrounded by his people. Just like Mussolini.

Hating the right people is good for the soul.

Amen brother, amen. I'll have none of that Hippy crap about hatred being bad, not when people like George Galloway, Osama Bin Laden and Noam Chomsky draw breath.

This entire Castro era could have been avoided if either or both Dwight Eisenhower or John Kennedy and his brother had the guts to keep their promises.

Eisenhower and his windbag secretary of state, John Foster Dulles had been proclaiming throughout the middle and late 1950s what
Ameria would do to defend freedom. Except that when Castro got into power on New Years day 1959, and immediately began introducing communism and massive repression of human rights, Eisenhower didn't do didly shit for the Cubans for his remaining year in office. Which was a time that US intervention would have squashed Castro's regime like a pack of bedbugs.

Then when Kennedy and his brother took power in Washinton in January 1961, his very inaugural speech was filled with lies about what he in turn was going to do to protect freedom. He got his chance three months later, when the CIA trained and armed Brigada 2506 was dumped at night by the US military on an all but impossible landing point at the Bay of Pigs, then were marooned there by our government without the air power they needed to consolidate the position.

The Kennedys thought they would prove their manliness by fucking famous movie stars right in the bedrooms of the White House. But when it came to defending the Cuban freedom fighters whom their government had knowlingly trained, armed and dumped on the shore of a Cuban swamp with no air cover, the bastards showed their true colors. I'm a loyal American; so I didn't celebrate their deaths. But I sure as hell didn't mourn them, either.

I might add that the successive duck-and-run jobs both by Eisenhower and Kennedy helped give Nikita Khrushchev the notion that the US would give in to thermonuclear blackmail in the form of Soviet missile arrays stationed only 90 miles from our coastline. Which might have gotten us into humankind's last war, had Kennedy not made a then-unannounced deal with the Soviets never to invade Cuba. So the entire Cuban nation was sold into slavery just to protect a particularly vile part of the public records of two US presidents.

And if we used the need to spread democracy in the Mideast as a reason for supporting our invasion and occupation of Iraq, why the fuck wasn't the United States Army used a long time ago to overthrow Castro's vicious and incompetent regime in Havana?

Arnold Harris
Mount Horeb WI

I used to think the same stuff about Batista. Then I thought back on all the shit I had heard about him, and recalled it mainly came from people who were looking for excuses to justify Castro.

Actually, impartial records would show that Batista was something of an improvement on the stream of leaders who had run Cuba's affairs since the US armed forces departed that island after the country was freed from spanish colonial control in 1898. The fact that he allowed investments by the american Mafia hardly sets him apart from any of his predecessors.

And I imagine that if most Cubans had to make a choice, they would welcome back people like Lucky Luciano, Frank Costello, Meyer Lansky and the rest of the Yankee underworld bigshots, if that was what they had to do to erase the presence and memory of Fidel Castro, the murderous Che Guevara, and the communism that still is draped around their necks 14 years after the soviet empire collapsed in Europe.

And why not? They admittedly organized the tourist traffic in Havana to make money through prostitution. Which is exactly what this bastard Castro has been doing since the Russians got him out of their pocketbooks some time ago. But at least under Batista, they were free to leave without having to swim across the Florida straits, nobody was going hungry, and they didn't have to watch while the public schools turned their children into zombies, and they didn't have to listen to communist bullshit blared out at them from every radio and billboard, endlessly.

So don't think most of those people in Cuba wouldn't want to return to 1959, amber and all, so somebody could assassinate the bastard before he came to power and solidified his dictatorship.

Arnold Harris
Mount Horeb WI

Arnold Harris
Mount Horeb WI

Cuba's a "little slice of Hell just off the coast of Florida"? Darn! I was going to go there and sell my new Che Guevara wigs with attached berets. ;)

And I agree with you 100% Arnold about death. Fidel Castro is going to die one day. It isn't how you get there sometimes, it's the getting there that counts.