No More U.S.-Backed Dictators

at 11:15 AM Tuesday, May 31, 2011


BY: THE HILL


More than fifty years later, normalization proponents and many in the media never miss an opportunity to (disdainfully) refer to Cuba in the 1950's as a "tourist playground" and the Batista regime as a "U.S.-backed" dictatorship.

Yet, those same activists and reporters (editors) are also the biggest critics of U.S. policy towards Cuba, which conditions the lifting of sanctions to the respect for basic human rights and democratic reforms.

In other words, they're fine condemning a seven-year dictatorship more than fifty-years after it ended, but want to forgive and forget a fifty two-year dictatorship that's still brutally repressing its people to this very day.

Moreover, they now seem perfectly fine with Castro turning Cuba into a totalitarian "tourist playground.

Heck, they're even lobbying to facilitate it.

It's time to end the hypocrisy.

A "U.S.-backed" dictatorship in Cuba should be unacceptable -- regardless of the dictators name.

The picture below is of former Cuban dictator Fulgencio Batista holding current dictator Raul Castro (as a young boy).

Isn't that (disturbingly) precious?