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The real Cuba
Joseph
Farah. ©
2004 WorldNetDaily.com,. July 30, 2004.
A bunch of idiots claiming to be Christian
pastors recently visited Cuba, bringing
tons of supplies including computers and
wearing T-shirts that read: "Regime
change in the U.S., not Cuba."
Say what you want about President Bush
on American soil. That's fair game, of course.
That's the kind of country we have - one
that protects lively, free and open debate.
But these "Pastors for Peace"
wore those garments on Communist Cuban soil.
It's a travesty. Think about it. Can you
believe there are people who call themselves
Americans who would not want to see dictator
Fidel Castro leave office? That's what these
clowns were saying. They don't want to see
regime change in Cuba.
Their main goal in traveling to Cuba is
to draw attention to State Department restrictions
against travel to that police state by Americans.
The apostate clergymen simply traveled to
Mexico first and then to Cuba.
Cuba loves this kind of attention. Castro
has persuaded these useful idiots that America
is somehow the country guilty of oppression
by restricting travel to one country.
There's just one little problem with this
scenario: Cuba restricts travel by all of
its citizens to any foreign destination.
And with good reason. If Castro let his
people go - go they would. The island would
empty out in no time.
As an example of what I'm talking about,
two of the starting pitchers for the major
league-leading New York Yankees are Cuban
defectors - Jose Contreras and Orlando Hernandez.
They had to leave Cuba on leaky boats, braving
sharks, harsh weather and Cuban military
patrols to make it to the promised land.
They had to leave family members behind.
Recently, Contreras' wife and children
somehow managed to get out and join their
husband and father in New York. It was a
miracle given Castro's travel restrictions.
They were lucky to get out alive.
Castro has been known to order his fighter
pilots to shoot out of the water rafts and
boats leaving his island without authorization.
When Castro and his American friends criticize
U.S. travel restrictions to Cuba, it is
the moral equivalent of the old Soviet Union
criticizing travel restrictions on West
Berliners traveling to the East.
Where are the calls for reciprocity? Where
are the calls by these moral relativists
for some freedom in Cuba - one of the world's
worst human-rights abusers?
Cuban intelligence agents dominate every
facet of "life," if you want to
call it that, in Cuba. Castro is a supporter
of international Islamic terrorism and allied
closely with Iran. He maintained a close
relationship with former Iraqi dictator
Saddam Hussein and is believed to have aided
his biological warfare program. Cuba is
once again trying to foment revolution and
build new tyrannies throughout Latin America
as it did during the days when it was allied
with the Soviet Union.
This is hardly the time to talk about ending
the embargo with Cuba. The United States
is at war - a war that came home to America's
shores Sept. 11, 2001.
Castro is the enemy - not only of America,
but of freedom everywhere.
It's just unfortunate for the Cuban people
that President John F. Kennedy didn't have
the intestinal fortitude to liberate the
island from this tyrant during the Bay of
Pigs. A little air cover was probably all
the freedom fighters needed.
Imagine all the suffering we could have
alleviated if that operation were run as
cleanly as the invasion that overthrew Castro's
buddy, Saddam Hussein.
As for the "Pastors for Peace,"
they ought to be deported. Let them go live
in their "workers paradise" and
see how they like it.
Joseph Farah's nationally
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where he serves as editor and chief executive
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