September 04, 2002
From the desk of Jane Galt:I just ran across this
I just ran across this exceedingly stupid article on Cuba via Benjamin Kepple. A sample:
Its neighbour had spent the first 60 years of the 20th century running Cuba as a semi-detached state – and a source of cheap sugar, sex and salsa. No more Mr Nice President: when Castro started to implement reforms, and laid the foundations for vast improvements in health and education, the White House turned nasty. Its incumbents filled the remainder of the century with a spite that played into the hands of the man the Americans sought to destroy.
That's right, it wasn't the cozying up to our Cold War enemies, nor even the decision to allow the Soviet Union to move missiles onto their territory so they could be pointed at us; no, it was the vaccination programmes and the building of the Ernesto Guevara Primary School in Havana that pushed us over the edge. Posted by Jane Galt at September 4, 2002 12:35 PM | TrackBack | Technorati inbound links