Castro vs. Mubarak's "Reforms"

February 3, 2011

BY: CAPITOL HILL CUBANS

While we disagree with the overall pessimism in Daniel Greenfield's recent column on Egypt, the following observation is quite noteworthy:

"Consider the pundits who have urged us to embrace Castro's reforms, but would like us to see remove Mubarak. There is little difference between the men in principle. Mubarak is certainly less of a tyrant than Castro. But Cuba is the left's pet cause. And they fantasize that Egypt will see a left wing government take hold once Mubarak is gone."

That's hard to argue against.

If you haven't seen the video interview we posted with a young, Egyptian, anti-Mubarak protester on Capitol Hill Cubans TV, please click here to do so.

If that's what the protesters are selling for Egypt (or Cuba for that matter) -- then we're certainly buying.

Finally, a word of caution for all the zealous U.S. supporters of normalizing relations with the Castro regime:

When the U.S. colludes with dictators for a short-term gain, it always risks losing the people in the long-term.

A very risky arbitrage.

It's always in the long-term interests of the U.S. to stand -- unequivocally -- behind its democratic values and principles.