Look, no one writes 'This guy was a shithook' in the Book of Condolences at the Funeral Home.
I am amazed and ashamed by the hypocrisy of Americans who found something nice to say about Castro.
It's rather like all those republicans who couldn't say enough bad things about Trump, but are now sanguine toward him
because it looks as though he will restore Republican seating arrangements at the political trough in DC, just when most of them thought it was probably over.
Back to Castro. I literally don't care what his accomplishments were in terms of literacy and medical care for the Cuban people. That's what he owed them, and frankly it's all he could do, given he had precluded doing much else for them. He made his choice of friends and his people suffered for it. Stubbornly wrong to the end of his life.
What I remember is that this asshole literally brought the world to the brink of destruction by allowing the Russians to bring nuclear weapons to Cuba. He would not have been the cause of nuclear war, but the enabler of it. And frankly, with regards to murder and brutal oppression, Castro was guilty of everything his critics say he was.
Let's also remember that Republicans like Kissinger and Nixon got cozy with Chinese and Soviet regimes who oppressed and starved their citizens, jailed or murdered their political opponents: Kissinger called the go-along, get-along accommodation of Russia and China and their satellites realpolitik. They're as much cowardly hypocrites as Carter and others who say nice things now about that bag of worm-food and rottenness, Fidel Castro.
And the Catholic Church's popes playing up to Castro? About as morally repugnant as it gets, but it's a well-entrenched political role for the Holy Roman Catholic Church, like its support of Franco, Mussolini, and the Nazis. Popes have historically hiked that white skirt up over their heads for centuries. Ugh.
And there's something to be said for seeing Castro as the USA's political blunder: if we had funded his opposition to Battista and supported him militarily when he was just a rebel and not a red, things might have been different. But no, we supported the dictator Battista and Americans took lots of profits from Battista's corrupt Cuba. Let's see which dictators Trump chooses to buddy up with... he's already licked Putin's ass.
