J.R. Nyquist. WorldNetDaily.com. September 11, 2000
He huffed and he puffed, but he didn't blow their house down. At the United Nations Millennium Summit on Thursday, Cuba's big bad wolf -- Fidel Castro -- unveiled his plan for devouring the world's capitalist piggies.
Of course, an obstacle stands in Fidel's way. America's piggies continue to oppose his "eat-the-rich" program -- perhaps because they'd be the main dish in socialism's global dining hall.
Given his culinary agenda, it is not surprising that Castro enjoys bad relations with the United States. Having picked his own country clean, the hungry look of the bearded old windbag is too obvious. He scares the little piggies, instead of herding them toward the slaughterhouse with kind and
gentle words.
It seems that Fidel Castro has not mastered the more subtle approach of China and Russia.
Indirectly referring to America as a "hegemonic superpower," Fidel advocated a radical change in world government. Specifically, he said it was unfair that rich countries like America, France and Britain have permanent seats on the U.N. Security Council, where they can veto attempts at
Marxist wealth redistribution on a global scale.
Fidel's program is simple. He wants to deliver the rich nations, bound and gagged, to the poor nations. This is called "overthrowing the dictatorship of the bourgeoisie" -- the main objective of Marxism-Leninism.
The great myth which Castro preached on Thursday -- so popular with America's left -- is that poor countries are somehow the victims of rich countries. By preaching a message of envy and hate, Castro excuses the local dictators and corrupt bureaucracies of the Third World for exploiting and
robbing their own people. Instead, he blames everything on wealthy countries that send billions in charitable aid, and invest billions more in the growth and development of backward countries.
Castro's ideology is not simply one of biting the hand that feeds. He wants to feed on the hand itself.
Organizing to starve and pillage entire countries, building weapons of mass destruction with which to deliver a deathblow to "capitalism," socialist dictators always mask their preparations by slandering their intended victims. For Castro the comparatively peaceful world market, where
buyers and sellers enjoy economic freedom, is an evil arrangement. It is, in Castro's own words, a "recipe that only serves to impoverish and exploit poor countries into permanent dependency."
It's as if the rapacity of socialist dictators, the anarchy and bloodshed they inspire, and the corruption of communist bureaucrats, couldn't possibly account for the stunted development and rampant poverty of country after country.
And what of America's alleged imperialism?
As the forward attack base of militant socialism, Cuba remains Russia's unsinkable aircraft carrier in the Caribbean. So why does America tolerate the existence of a hostile regime, armed with biological and toxin weapons of mass destruction, just south of Florida?
The continued existence of Castro's regime gives the lie to communist propaganda regarding American imperialism. If America was the rude bully that Marxists allege, Fidel would already be sharing a United States prison cell with Manuel Noriega, his Panamanian double agent.
It seems that the so-called "hegemony" of America has been overrated. The brutal Americans, in reality, are weak and accommodating. Their policy is not a policy of wholesale slaughter and destruction. It is a policy of shaking hands with dictators and cutting lucrative deals.
Take Bill Clinton as a case in point. Look at what Clinton has done for Russia and China. He has kept American defense spending down. He has promoted a feminized and demoralized military. He has prevented us from resuming nuclear tests. He has been the apple of Russia's eye, and a great friend
to the Chinese. Therefore, it is not surprising to learn that Clinton is one of Fidel's heroes.
On Thursday Fidel Castro stalked U.S. President Bill Clinton "like a groupie." Shunned by eight previous presidents, Castro sought the hand of Clinton. And finally, his humble effort was rewarded when Clinton became the first U.S. president to shake his paw. As Castro later told an
MSNBC reporter, he admires Bill Clinton above all other American presidents.
As President Bill Clinton signs treaty after treaty, protocol after protocol, turning America into the wealthiest province of a socialist world empire, Castro cannot help feeling a sensation of gratitude. Thank you! Thank you for leading your nation toward suicide! Thank you for undermining
American national security! Thank you for the hope of future victory you've given us!
And now it is time to take America's U.N. veto away. Clinton has done his part by applying pressure from above. Now it is Fidel's job to apply pressure from below, from the poor countries who will demand an end to America's permanent seat on the Security Council.
If communism is dead, then Castro shouldn't exist; and for that matter, KGB Lt. Col. Vladimir Putin shouldn't be the president of Russia. But communism is not dead because nobody killed it. The communists were always a tiny minority, ruling with force and fraud. During the last decade, they
simply took the fraud to a new level.
They pronounced their own obituary and held their hands out for goodies from the West.
As Toby Westerman points out in the September issue of WorldNet magazine, Castro still hosts a Russian spy base at Lourdes, Cuba. And the Chinese are building a satellite-tracking center at Jaruco. In this context, it was not insignificant that after his Thursday speech, Fidel had a 30-minute
private meeting with Chinese President Jiang Zemin.
Cuba's big bad wolf has joined forces with China's big bad wolf. And if the little capitalist piggies have survived until now, one should not assume they will always be safe from the wolves -- especially when the wolf pack might one day bare its thermonuclear fangs.
J.R. Nyquist is a WorldNetDaily contributing editor and author of "Origins of the Fourth World War."
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