[HCCN] Fwd: Anti-Communism, alive and well

[Judith Robbins]

Making a point....

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>
> From  longer William Blum piece in Z-net:
>
> Anti-Communism, alive and well
>
> Anti-communism continues to have a detrimental effect upon the  
> intelligence and honesty of Americans. In April, US Secretary of  
> State Hillary Clinton stated that the Castro brothers "do not want  
> to see an end to the embargo and do not want to see normalization  
> with the United States because they would then lose all the excuses  
> for what hasn't happened in Cuba in the last 50 years."[2]
>
>  She doesn’t believe that herself. But she thinks the rest or us  
> are stupid enough to swallow it. If she did believe it, she’d  
> advocate normalization of US-Cuban relations just to stick it to  
> the Castros and show them up for the frauds she says they are. In  
> effect the American Secretary of State declared that the central  
> element of US Cuba policy for 50 years has done exactly the  
> opposite of what it was intended to accomplish. Washington, for all  
> practical purposes, has been a loyal -- if unwitting -- ally of the  
> Havana regime.
>
>  As to “what hasn’t happened in Cuba in the last 50 years” --to add  
> to the mountain of other evidence of the benevolence of Cuban  
> society we now have Save the Children's “State of the World's  
> Mothers Report 2010". Save the Children, an internationally  
> acclaimed children’s advocate organization, annually ranks the best  
> and worst places to be a mother. Amongst the 81 “Less Developed  
> Countries” analyzed, Cuba is ranked number one; i.e., the best  
> place to be a mother. (Amongst the 43 “More Developed Countries”  
> analyzed, the United States is ranked number 28.)[3]
>
>  Cuban National Assembly president Ricardo Alarcon responded to  
> Clinton’s statement by saying: "If she really thinks that the  
> blockade benefits the Cuban government -- which she wants to  
> undermine -- the solution is very simple: that they lift it even  
> for a year to see whether it is in our interest or theirs."[4]
>

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