After Fidel...Making Plans

Leaving the Middle East behind for the moment, I would like to turn to something a little closer to home...for the USA. Cuba is once again in the news. An article today on the BBC News website, reports that the Cubans are very concerned about a report being published by the Commission for Assistance to a Free Cuba, created by president Bush in 2003.



This report anticipates the demise of the current Cuban president, Fidel Castro. Now anyone with a rudimentary knowledge of history, or has seen Godfather II, recalls that Fidel liberated Cuba from the grip of a corrupt dictator (Batista), the monopolistic and colonial control of American big business, and the insidious influence of the Mafia. It is because of this that America hates him so much. They lost so much and he has never offered a penny in compensation. But, more than this, he chose to side with the Soviet Union during the cold war. This was a blunder on his part, and his people have suffered because of it. He allowed nuclear missiles to be placed on his island and aimed at the United States. El stupido grande!

But this report is aimed at financing projects that are aimed at undermining the Cuban government after Castro has died. It is aimed at replacing the communist government of the island with one that is more to the liking of the Bush administration. In short...destroying yet another country's government to bring it into line with American policy. Will this nonsensical and self-defeating American foreign policy of regime change never end? Will they come for England next, or France, or Canada? Have they already done it in Mexico, as they did in Chile and Argentina? When will they engage with others on equal terms.

The USA is behaving like a playgound bully: Grown too strong too fast and lacking the real maturity to do anything other than throw that weight around and intimidate the smaller players. Spoiled by indulgence the bully pouts and screams and throws it's little military tantrums in order to get things his way.