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He huffed and he puffed, but he didn't blow their house down. At the
United Nations Millennium Summit on Thursday, Cuba's big bad wolf --
Fidel
Castro -- unveiled his plan for devouring the world's capitalist
piggies.
Of course, an obstacle stands in Fidel's way. America's piggies
continue
to oppose his "eat-the-rich" program -- perhaps because they'd be the
main dish
in socialism's global dining hall.
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Given his culinary agenda, it is not surprising that Castro enjoys
bad
relations with the United States. Having picked his own country clean,
the
hungry look of the bearded old windbag is too obvious. He scares the
little
piggies, instead of herding them toward the slaughterhouse with kind and
gentle words.
It seems that Fidel Castro has not mastered the more subtle approach
of
China and Russia.
Indirectly referring to America as a "hegemonic superpower," Fidel
advocated a radical change in world government. Specifically, he said
it was
unfair that rich countries like America, France and Britain have
permanent
seats on the U.N. Security Council, where they can veto attempts at
Marxist
wealth redistribution on a global scale.
Fidel's program is simple. He wants to deliver the rich nations,
bound
and gagged, to the poor nations. This is called "overthrowing the
dictatorship of the bourgeoisie" -- the main objective of
Marxism-Leninism.
The great myth which Castro preached on Thursday -- so popular with
America's left -- is that poor countries are somehow the victims of rich
countries. By preaching a message of envy and hate, Castro excuses the
local
dictators and corrupt bureaucracies of the Third World for exploiting
and
robbing their own people. Instead, he blames everything on wealthy
countries
that send billions in charitable aid, and invest billions more in the
growth
and development of backward countries.
Castro's ideology is not simply one of biting the hand that feeds.
He
wants to feed on the hand itself.
Organizing to starve and pillage entire countries, building weapons
of mass destruction with which to deliver a deathblow to "capitalism,"
socialist dictators always mask their preparations by slandering their
intended victims. For Castro the comparatively peaceful world market,
where buyers and sellers enjoy economic freedom, is an evil
arrangement. It is, in Castro's own words, a "recipe that only serves
to impoverish and exploit poor countries into permanent dependency."
It's as if the rapacity of socialist dictators, the anarchy and
bloodshed
they inspire, and the corruption of communist bureaucrats, couldn't
possibly
account for the stunted development and rampant poverty of country after
country.
And what of America's alleged imperialism?
As the forward attack base of militant socialism, Cuba remains
Russia's
unsinkable aircraft carrier in the Caribbean. So why does America
tolerate
the existence of a hostile regime, armed with biological and toxin
weapons of
mass destruction, just south of Florida?
The continued existence of Castro's regime gives the lie to communist
propaganda regarding American imperialism. If America was the rude
bully
that Marxists allege, Fidel would already be sharing a United States
prison
cell with Manuel Noriega, his Panamanian double agent.
It seems that the so-called "hegemony" of America has been overrated.
The brutal Americans, in reality, are weak and accommodating. Their
policy is
not a policy of wholesale slaughter and destruction. It is a policy of
shaking hands with dictators and cutting lucrative deals.
Take Bill Clinton as a case in point. Look at what Clinton has done
for
Russia and China. He has kept American defense spending down. He has
promoted a feminized and demoralized military. He has prevented us from
resuming nuclear tests. He has been the apple of Russia's eye, and a
great
friend to the Chinese. Therefore, it is not surprising to learn that
Clinton
is one of Fidel's heroes.
On Thursday Fidel Castro stalked U.S. President Bill Clinton "like a
groupie." Shunned by eight previous presidents, Castro sought the hand
of
Clinton. And finally, his humble effort was rewarded when Clinton
became the first U.S. president to shake his paw. As Castro later told
an MSNBC
reporter, he admires Bill Clinton above all other American presidents.
As President Bill Clinton signs treaty after treaty, protocol after
protocol, turning America into the wealthiest province of a socialist
world
empire, Castro cannot help feeling a sensation of gratitude. Thank you!
Thank you for leading your nation toward suicide! Thank you for
undermining American national security! Thank you for the hope of
future victory you've given us!
And now it is time to take America's U.N. veto away. Clinton has
done
his part by applying pressure from above. Now it is Fidel's job to
apply
pressure from below, from the poor countries who will demand an end to
America's permanent seat on the Security Council.
If communism is dead, then Castro shouldn't exist; and for that
matter,
KGB Lt. Col. Vladimir Putin shouldn't be the president of Russia. But
communism is not dead because nobody killed it. The communists were
always a tiny minority, ruling with force and fraud. During the last
decade, they simply took the fraud to a new level.
They pronounced their own obituary and held their hands out for
goodies
from the West.
As Toby Westerman points out in the
September issue of WorldNet
magazine, Castro still hosts a Russian spy base at Lourdes, Cuba. And the Chinese are building a satellite-tracking center at Jaruco. In this context, it was not insignificant that after his Thursday speech, Fidel had a 30-minute private meeting with Chinese President Jiang Zemin.
Cuba's big bad wolf has joined forces with China's big bad wolf. And if the little capitalist piggies have survived until now, one should not assume they will always be safe from the wolves -- especially when the wolf pack might one day bare its thermonuclear fangs.