PrintJanuary 5, 2008
Only Change Can Save Cuba
If one believes he is still alive, January 1st marked the 49th anniversary of the uninterrupted, uncontested, tyrannical rule of Fidel Castro. Five decades in power might just be enough for the perpetual revolutionary. Granma, the state-run and not coincidently, only newspaper on the island, quotes the dictator as saying he will not cling to power. The monumental sarcasm of his statement is, unsurprisingly, lost on the "Commandante." He will now impart grandfatherly advice to the young leaders of the revolution. Exactly why anyone would care to listen to the architect of one of histories great failures isn't terribly clear. But such delusions are common in advanced stages of "megalomania." As Tenzin Gyatso (aka The Dali Llama) says, ""We each create our own reality and for that we are solely responsible." And no one has created a more demented sense of reality than the bearded one, who along with his many apologists, has a sense of reality that...(Read Full Article)
