Tomorrow’s Installment
in the continuing saga of those who, based on a combination of ignorance and wishful thinking, would prop up the ruling military junta in Havana. Tomorrow retired Gen Barry McCaffrey will testify on US/Cuba relations before a House committee. Details here in a Press Release.
I might find the General more impressive were he not one of the signatories to this letter which boasts such claims as this one:
Though economically weak, the Castro government has kept the broad support of its people by responding to economic shocks and providing universal access to health care and education. There will be no counter-revolution any time soon.
So you see, folks, it's not the machinery of oppression, or the Stalinist tactics, it's the universal healthcare, stupid! This is but one example. Talk about your informed policy. Sheesh.
He served under a Democrat, and has visited with Fidel - what more do you expect from douchebags like that. Don't let all the rank, uniform, and former power fool you. There are others like him, former senior military, who have carried Fidel's water over the past decade or more, defending the Cuban dictatorship. What's so sad and sickening is that as the Commander of US Southern Command when it was still in Panama, one of his stated goals, and missions, was to foster "democracy, freedom, and human rights" in Latin America. He's another one of the absolutely hypocritical dumb-shits we have in this society, in spite of their military service and supposed intellect.
Seven years ago, on the heels of the arrest of Ana Belen Montes, the Castro spy in the Pentagon, Barry McCaffrey said, after talking 12 hours with Fidel Castro, that Cuba represented "zero threat to the United States." He then added: "I see no evidence at all that the Cubans are in any way facilitating drug trafficking...Indeed, I see good evidence of the opposite. I strongly believe that Cuba is an island of resistance to drug traffic."
http://www.latinamericanstudies.org/us-cuba/links.htm
He will most likely parrott the same propaganda on Capitol Hill tomorrow.
What's truly disturbing is that despite details such as those mentioned by Dr. Delacova, someone like Gen. Barry McGaffrey is still solicited to provide testimony. Where else is someone who is evidently not an impartial witness used? But then again, that has been the story of our 50 year long exile. It's always the people who are squarely in castro's filthy pocket who are used as sources of information: the Wayne Smith's, the Ann Louise Bardach's, the Lisandro Perez's of the world.