Castro steps down.

Reports CNN:

Castro clung to a socialist economic model and one-party Communist rule, even after the Soviet Union disintegrated and most of the rest of the world concluded that state socialism was a bankrupt idea whose time had come and gone.

“The most vulnerable part of his persona as a politician is precisely his continued defense of a totalitarian model that is the main cause of the hardships, the misery and the unhappiness of the Cuban people,“ said Elizardo Sanchez, a human rights advocate and critic of the Castro regime.

Leonard Pitts recently had an excellent column criticizing social conservatives for always being late to the cause of social equality for minority groups. Perhaps one day American liberals will be able to denounce the brutality of the Communist regime without clenching their teeth.

For the record: (nah, just opinion)

1) Fine by me. Kill Castro. Then what.
2) Recognition of Kosovo is a Bush State Dept. priority. He is not a Dem, much as you would wish he were. Slick Willy did set the stage. He is a Dem, much as you would remind us.
3) AIDS money for Africa is part of Bush’s pathetic attempt to build a legacy in his remaining time in office. He is over there now basking in the adulation.

However, it may have some value. I’m not sure about the relative bang for the buck for the medications. I only know Bush had to travel to Africa and “pay” his way to be among friends.

4) I don’t get CITGO gas, on principle, but I don’t go out of my way to boycott them either.

Oh,BTW, principles are when one knows something is right and takes the correct action to support them—such as killing Castro & Cronies.

Instead, America’s DEM principles are to give money to Kosovo/Serbia and African AIDS victims first. Neither of which offer the US any value nor is any of our business. Meanwhile those 90 miles away can go to Hell. US foreign policy, another laugher.

Venezuela? Americans love Chavez because they keep buying his gasolene—CITGO! They keep sucking it down. Tastes great!

When is the last time, let alone the first, that anyone on these boards has ignored a CITGO fillup or even thought about it?

Sounds like a good place to put up some condo’s and a billboard.

For the record:

1) Cuba was brutal and oppressive under Batista;
2) Cuba is brutal and oppressive under Castro;
3) Cuba will probably be brutal and oppressive 100 years from now.

Cuba is a poor country.

We should be worried more about Venezuela than Cuba, although I can understand, appreciate, and sympathize with the conservatives who feel the libs are too quick to try to reconcile with our old foe. Squeechy appeasers.

Cuba has nothing of interest for us. We can afford to wait another 100 or 200 years for real progress.

(my opinion only)

Bay of Pigs says it all about how the US has let down Cuba for the past 45 years. DEM Kennedy enabled Castro to stay in power originally, then future Presidents compounded the error.

Castro should have been taken out by the CIA. Military support should have restored expatriot Cubans to the homeland. Democracy should have been in place for the past 40 years. A national disgrace for the US.

Bart,

Of course conservatives are late. Caution is a conservative principle…supposedly.

As for Mr. Pitts, his theme seems to be that conservatives should behave as liberals…think about it. What tempers liberal impulsiveness? Can you imagine a world of unchecked leftism? Yikes! (see own post on Castro)

And besides, Pitts seems to think racial pandering is the way for republicans to win over blacks. This might work but, is racializing the country even more than it is now really a good idea? Whatever happened to promoting ideas over tribalism?

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