tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1400985529434569506.post6524118079305686168..comments2024-03-29T05:29:57.536-04:00Comments on The DiploMad 2.0: On Cuba and Latin America: Congresswoman Ros-Lehiten Has it StraightDiploMadhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02316439950882822419noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1400985529434569506.post-51225522654260676382011-06-05T04:13:45.251-04:002011-06-05T04:13:45.251-04:00"And let us not forget that it was Fidel Cast..."And let us not forget that it was Fidel Castro, not some Middle Eastern jihadi, who nearly destroyed the United States. He proved barking mad during the October 1962 missile crisis. He wanted it to go from crisis to war, real war, not the cold variety. He wanted Khrushchev to "push the button." <br /><br />Good point to bring up. The Russians never really trusted Castro's judgment after he screamed for two days at Khrushchev's lackeys to use A-bombs on the USA. The dumb eff-word didn't even know that the US had tactical and strategic nuke advantage and that the Demonrat demogoguery about the "missile gap" and such was sheer BS. The guy is a one-man crime wave and I hope Marco Rubio is elected to Veep next election and finally puts a stake in the heart of the criminal regime in Havana.dave in bocahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10164227301361227792noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1400985529434569506.post-83066489146612311512011-06-02T14:04:41.425-04:002011-06-02T14:04:41.425-04:00Yes, I've wondered about "The wonders of ...Yes, I've wondered about "The wonders of Cuban Health Care". When I was in China, I asked a migrant worker in Guangzhou about CHina's vaunted barefoot doctors, and learned that they gave a shot of sugar water for almost everything, except that if you were really lucky, they'd put a copy of the little red book on the afflicted part aand chant slogans for five minutes. At least, that was how it was in my interlocutor's village in Hubei.<br /><br />And, in Laos, "every village has a school!" Well, it may not have teachers, books, desks, pencils, or even walls, but it's a village school.<br /><br />I was raised in a family in which there was "keine feindem am linkes", and where I will hear the praises of Castro's Cuba sung ad nauseam at every gathering. But every Cuban I've run into sings a very different tune.Kephahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00999385775493831638noreply@blogger.com