Well, I read Dewey's last post, because, being relatively short, it didn't need the paragraph breaks. I haven't read the previous ones, for the reason I gave - but no matter, since I gather from the first sentence in the one I did read that he know thinks they included "lies". (I imagine he means exaggerations, or things that he thinks he could have put better.)

So Dewey thinks Castro is better than the previous regime, which was supported by the American government, and that Castro, although a tyrannical idiot, has some good things for which he should be commended. Also that the USA has messed up and exploited its Latin American neighbours. At the same time Dewey loves the United States, and prefers not to live in Cuba, and doesn't like the Cuban government much.

Fair enough. Doesn't seem too controversial. I'd have thought anyone thinking that way would be wholly opposed to the economic blockade of Cuba, which is what this thread has been about.

Whatever the failings of the regime headed by Castro may be, noone can doubt that the lives of the Cuban people have been made far worse by the blockade. It also seems clear that it has had the effect of blocking any movement towards greater liberalisation and relaxation of government controls.

But then making life harder for ordinary Cubans has surely been a central aim of the blockade. And of course above all, preventing any danger of a move towards "socialism with a human face," which would be a serious danger. (That explains why there is no problem in making fruiends with China.)

(But honestly, Dewey, breaking up the text into readable chunks is the easiest thing in the world,and it really is worth the effort.) |