When Confucius was once asked about being praised he made sure to qualify his answer by noting that he’d prefer to be admired by the good people and hated by the bad.News is emerging from Cuba that the communist dictator Fidel Castro has praised the Nobel Committee for its recent decision to award the Peace Prize to Barack Obama:"I don't always share the positions of [the Nobel Committee] but I'm obligated to recognize that in this instance it was, in my judgment, a positive measure.”Castro went on to note that the Obama Peace Prize decision was more than anything else a repudiation of “the genocidal policies that not a few presidents of that country have followed.”In other words, by helping to liberate millions of Iraqis and Afganis from brutal tyrannies George Bush was committing “genocide” according to Castro.Why does Fidel Castro accuse “not a few” American presidents of “genocide” but praise Barack Obama?  The...(Read Full Post)