From Cuba To Iraq

Peter Foster had a very interesting column in the National Post yesterday in which he looked at how Kennedy handled Fidel Castro in light of Iraq and Saddam today.

Fidel is one of those little problems we should have dealt with properly a long time ago. He's nothing more than a two bit, banana republic tyrant with some friends in the right places to exert influence on public opinion (like the New York Times, Hollywood, France, etc.). The only thing Fidel has going for his is his charisma. It is how he controls the apparatus of government in Havana. His ideas are a intellectually bankrupt as his national treasury. Without the Soviet Union propping him up, militarily Cuba is a joke.

The man is a walking, talking human rights violation. He has destroyed a nation. He has enslaved the people. He is every bit as evil a loser as Saddam. So why do we let him run his little prison camp? Why don't we just go ahead and remove the cancer in the Caribbean?

He's hung around for 40 years already. He needs to go away. It is in the best interest of the United States if he does.