The Congressional Black Caucus sent a team down to Havana to talk with Castro. Click here for story.
So, why are we seeing that democrats are so willing to reach out to every world leader? I really don’t want to bring back McCarthyism but let’s be honest here, our elected officials seem very accepting of communist principles and now it’s leaders. Castro isn’t the innocent head of a country that the Bush administration just recently added to some evil-doer list. For the past 50 plus years, Castro has been a violent and dominating dictator. He gained power through violent revolution, consolidated all power and property and stripped Cubans of any political voice. He is a frequent human rights violator (he put homosexuals in concentration camps) and has constantly sided with our enemies (um Soviet Union). Now the CBC wants to reestablish better relations with Cuba? Why? What is this push by our very left administration and congress to reach out to everyone in the world?
Officially, the trip by the CBC was to open up dialogue and possibly eliminate travel restrictions for Americans into Cuba but I see this as an initial sign of communist acceptance by our leaders. “It was almost like listening to an old friend,” said Rep. Bobby Rush (D-Il.) who was one of the seven visiting. It’s as if they are so quick to accept all of our enemies that they either don’t know or just disregard the history of leaders like Castro. It’s dangerously hasty. Left Americans everywhere are cheering because Americans will be “liked” more around the world. Why do we want certain people to like us? We want communist tyrants to like us? We want the Taliban to like us? It is the perfect example of the ignorance of these ‘world citizen’ wanna-bees. The end game to action like this would be a serious consolidation of power and resources (which starts when you nationalize everything within your own country first). I would love to see liberals (who aren’t part of the ruling elite after power consolidation) then. Because they hate America so much (by their continued stay in this country), they welcome any change even if it involves getting in bed with ruthless dictators. Ask the many Cubans who defected from Cuba how they feel about members within our congress visiting Castro.
How does America look now? Weak. Weak when we seek approval from communist dictators. Weak when we have leaders who go overseas and apologize for America. The left acts like the hundreds of nations around the world are righteous and without any fault and we are to apologize. Europe was volatile and warring for centuries and this country was never issued an apology from any leader in Europe. Are we completely ignorant of history?
More importantly, what is this backlash on capitalism and dancing with communism? The free market system is in a valley because its peak was reached from greed by the everyday person. People in this nation spent more than they made for years and when we see the result of that, we want to blame the system. This backlash on money and the ability to earn it. We want to cap salaries and limit what people can make. That is a very dangerous precedent. Capitalism is not perfect because people are not perfect but without capitalism you have no innovation. Capitalism, and the opportunity to reward yourself, has brought about every innovation in the modern world. It’s not a coincidence that our technology and standard of living have increased exponentially with a capitalist super power in the world.
It’s not that I disagree with diplomatic relations with other countries that were once enemies. It’s that I disagree with a blanket olive branch extension to anyone and everyone who wants to grab it and take full advantage of us. We seem too eager to counter every perceived international faux pas that Bush committed. It’s time we redefine our values as Americans not as world citizens because we are not. It sounds dreadful and mean and bit pessimistic but there is no such thing as world peace. There are billions of people on this Earth each selfish in their own right, and some of them have power. War and conflict have been a constant in human nature since the beginning of time and with dwindling resources on this Earth and more people, it’s not going away. As an American I’d rather my leader take the lead and not invite incompetent leaders to share his stage.
PS - I'm almost a week late on this story, I apologize. It still may be news to some because the major news outlets under reported it, like many other stories.
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