The New York Sun's Editorial Board on Castro's latest deception with The Atlantic's Jeffrey Goldberg: Castro at the Crossroads There's a wonderful riddle about the stranger traveling in the land of the two tribes — liars and truth tellers. Members of the two tribes look identical. The difference is that one tribe always lies, and one tribe always tells the truth. The stranger is walking along a road trying to reach the capital. Presently he comes to a fork, at which is standing one of the locals. The stranger is unable to detect whether the local is a truth-teller or a liar. But he needs to find out which fork leads to the capital. He is permitted one question. So what could he ask the local — who either always lies or always tells the truth — that would get him to his destination? [...] Mr. Castro is what he always has been, a typical communist. He is a member of a tribe whose language is fundamentally disconnected from truth. It is something to remember when he talks about economic reform in the captive island. It is something to remember when he talks, as he did to Mr. Goldberg, of his sudden and new-found affection for the Jews and for Israel. Communist dictators can't tell the truth because they stand at the head of structures of inter-locking lies. When any one lie is exposed, the whole edifice is threatened. This is what happened in, say, the Soviet bloc when a free trade union, Solidarity, exposed the lie that the communists were for labor. Can one have any useful conversation with a man like Mr. Castro? In the riddle about the stranger at the crossroads, the solution for the stranger is to put the question to the local is this way: "If I were to ask you tomorrow, 'which way to the capital?', what would you tell me?" The member of the tribe that always tells the truth would tell him the correct way. The local who always lies would have, on the morrow, told him the wrong way, but he must lie about what he would tell him on the morrow, so inadvertently tells the stranger the right way. It's not so simple as that, however, to get the truth out of a communist. The Great Goldberg, who is a marvelous reporter and dealt with Castro's dissembling in a post Friday evening, can take comfort in the fact that a long line of Cold War newspapermen learned the lesson he just learned the hard way.
Fidel Castro: The Cuban Economic Model Has Failed
Former Cuban President Fidel Castro shocked a reporter during a recent interview when he spoke of the failures of the government he fought so hard to build. "The Cuban model doesn't even work for us anymore" the 84 year old Castro told The Atlantic's Jeffrey Goldber. He eventually clarified his statement to mean not all parts of the government has failed, just overextended itself into the lives of it's people.
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