Pat Lynch’s column on Monday, February 25, 2008, contained a line that shows liberals just don’t get it. In fact, he blamed us for the hardship that the Cuban people have and are experiencing under Castro’s reign of terror. Apparently, Communism, subversive governments and enemies have no meaning to many today. They are quick to blame the United States for the problems around the world, especially when the countries are ruled by oppressive regimes.

The article Pat wrote was about Fidel Castro, one of the most despicable rulers known to man. (He has stepped down. His brother is in charge now.) He is a tyrant who imprisoned his people and executed them if they didn’t follow his freedom and liberty destroying methods. The man was and is a no account despotic tyrant. The world will be better off when he and his ilk are dead, as in six feet under or however deep the Cubans bury their dead.

How can anyone blame us for the economic plight of those people living under a dictatorship? Yet, that is what Pat did. He wrote the following: The United States continues, to this very day, an economic embargo that has brought hardship to the Cuban people and been of no benefit to Americans. Of course, our dislike of Communism and Castro’s ways, have caused the people of that nation all kinds of problems. Not only that, but it has been no benefit to us either. Khrushchev said at the U.N., “We will bury you.” Are we so foolish that we will trade with the Commies and give them the rope with which we will be hung? 

It isn’t our fault that the people of Cuba, or of any other despotic nation for that matter, suffer hardship. Trade with them only serves to prop up the regime and furnish propaganda for the despots to use against us. It is also folly to think that the trade items will reach the people in need. All too often, the trade items are used to enrich the dictator and are used against us. Further, it shows that we are soft regarding such regimes and value money more than the principles of freedom and liberty. Do we compromise our principles for the sake of monetary gain? Paul told Timothy: For the love of money is the root of all evil: which while some coveted after, they have erred from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows. (I Timothy 6:10)  

While it is undeniable that the people of nations like Cuba suffer atrocities of various kinds, it isn’t our responsibility to prop up the regimes by trading with them. Propaganda is an art practiced by Communist rulers: an art, which the leaders and citizens of this nation seemingly don’t understand.  For some reason, our leaders are loath to call Castro and his kind evil dictators, which is the correct, politically incorrect name for all of them. The world changed drastically when President Reagan called the old Soviet Empire an evil empire. The liberals raged and fumed, but the truth prevailed.

Fuming and raging are the usual behaviors of the liberals when their vaunted socialistic notions are challenged. They have fumed and raged for years about the Cuban embargo. No matter the notions of fantasy entertained by the liberals, trade (a silk purse) won’t turn a Communist nation (a rotten sow’s ear) into a republic or a democracy. Trade won’t bring freedom and liberty to those nations.

I listen to Pat everyday if possible. I read his Monday column without fail. It can be said that by engaging in those two activities that I might have masochistic  tendencies. That is as wrong as believing the embargo on Cuba should be ended.  

© 02-25-2008 DEC