Fidel Castro Dead at 90
Nov 26, 2016 08:29:21 #
Nov 26, 2016 08:33:18 #
jerryc41 wrote:
RIP
Nov 26, 2016 09:08:00 #
mas24
Loc: Southern CA
I woke up this morning and saw this announcement on TV News. I knew this would eventually happen, since he's been sick for so many years. Cubans in Miami, Florida are rejoicing in the streets. The only time I've seen rejoicing in America is when Sadam Hussein and Osama Bin Laden were k**led. Changes in Cuba were happening in Cuba under brother Raul Castro. If Donald Trump cancels President Obama's lifting of restrictions, life will continue to be tough for ordinary Cubans. They are blameless.
Nov 26, 2016 09:08:48 #
exakta56
Loc: Orford,New Hampshire
The Cuban people hopefully will gain freedom of choice as their government becomes less totalitarian. Keep your fingers crossed!
Nov 26, 2016 12:39:51 #
I am old enough to remember photos in Life Magazine right after the Cuban revolution of Cuban citizens standing next to open ditches, then falling into the ditches as they were shot in the next photo.
Nov 26, 2016 13:14:37 #
mas24
Loc: Southern CA
rehess wrote:
I am old enough to remember photos in Life Magazine right after the Cuban revolution of Cuban citizens standing next to open ditches, then falling into the ditches as they were shot in the next photo.
I'm not saying that Castro was a nice guy. The Chinese Government executes dissenters by shooting them in the back of their heads while kneeling. And it is too gruesome to even show on TV, what ISIS does to Westerners and other Muslim enemies. This is today, not 1959. Cuba is the least of our problems today. North Korea is way more dangerous than Castro's Cuba. And much farther away.
Nov 27, 2016 06:04:54 #
jerryc41 wrote:
all for the better, but I think Raoul is even worse.
Nov 27, 2016 06:46:26 #
no loss...........now if only his brother would join him.......
Nov 27, 2016 06:53:12 #
the 50 yr embargo of cuba was crap after 1972. the rockets were long gone. as for him being a dictator, we've kissed up to so many over the yrs.
Nov 27, 2016 06:55:52 #
lone ranger wrote:
no loss...........now if only his brother would join him.......
Nov 27, 2016 08:07:53 #
bull drink water wrote:
the 50 yr embargo of cuba was crap after 1972. the rockets were long gone. as for him being a dictator, we've kissed up to so many over the yrs.
How true - we built a wall around Cuba which only empowered the Castro regime. Things ARE getting better - and allowing the free exchange of ideas will only improve things. I was there 30 years ago and while we were talking to three young men in the central park, some plainclothes police came up and took them away. (One came to our hotel the next morning to let us know they were OK - they were just being harassed for talking to Americans). It is much more open now.
Castro will be remembered by many as a brutal dictator. Many of these "many" are folks who had done very well under the previous dictator (lest we forget the history of the Cuban Revolution). Castro was no saint. BUT - his people will say that while they have no freedom of speech, they do have the freedom to have health care and education. The health care system in Cuba, while starving for equipment and supplies, is one of the most organized systems I have ever seen - and in no poor country do the citizens have such access to care. His Latin America School of Medicine trains thousands of doctors - at no cost - to return to their countries to provide health care to the needy. He has sent doctors to poor countries throughout the world - even offered to send a medical disaster team to New Orleans after Katrina (offer rejected by the US). There is a huge billboard across from the medical school which reads: "In Brotherhood and Solidarity with the People". I always think that it would be nice to teach/preach just a LITTLE bit of that philosophy in our medical schools!
So - his legacy will be a very bipolar one - one of opposites - and one pretty much completely in the "eye of the beholder".
Nov 27, 2016 08:43:18 #
mas24 wrote:
I'm not saying that Castro was a nice guy. The Chinese Government executes dissenters by shooting them in the back of their heads while kneeling. And it is too gruesome to even show on TV, what ISIS does to Westerners and other Muslim enemies. This is today, not 1959. Cuba is the least of our problems today. North Korea is way more dangerous than Castro's Cuba. And much farther away.
Tell me, what do you think North Korea will do to us? What can it do?
Nov 27, 2016 08:46:12 #
simple, the little fat guy, that runs north korea, has threated to get fatter.......
Nov 27, 2016 09:13:02 #
FrankR
Loc: NYC
PNagy wrote:
Tell me, what do you think North Korea will do to us? What can it do?
They have atomic weapons, a missle with the range to cover all of Asia, parts of Eastern Europe, Alaska, Hawaii and a bat feces crazy raving maniac in charge. consider the possibilities.
Nov 27, 2016 09:23:32 #
lone ranger wrote:
simple, the little fat guy, that runs north korea, has threated to get fatter.......
How does that threaten the US in any way? Are you pretending that a few warheads with inferior delivery systems somehow gives North Korea offensive potential? Shortly after launching a few against us, their entire country would be a glass parking lot. The real reason the US postures against North Korea is to keep it perpetually vulnerable to the kind of bullying we visited on Iraq. If dangerous weapons were a problem, the Bush administration would not have gone after Iraq, which did not have any, but North Korea, which did.
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