Reply #34: He's not as bad as Pinochet, or the Chinese, or the Saudis.

[carpetbagger]

I find the near-state of war we've had with Castro over the last 40 years disproportionate to how we treated similar dictators in Indonesia, the Philippines, Honduras, and Egypt.

Except for the possibility of Cuba as a Soviet base of operations, which was a very real and severe threat, one we succeeded in removing, I smell a rat in our treatment of Castro. That rat is what Castro's tried to do to eliminate the banana republic economy that did no service to the people of Cuba under Bautista. It's not a bad thing to try to take back the resources of the land for the people on the land. And it's economics, not the dictatorship, not the oppression, that drives our policies.