Cubans in America talk of Cuba as the worst place on earth, yet they have a fantastic health care system and practically zero poverty
http://www.csuchico.edu/pub/inside/a...6/03.cuba.html
a professors account of Cuba's child and educational systems, notice the constant theme of poverty. Still, it is very pro-cuban so one wonders what a more skeptical eye could have seen in the average Cuban's "happiness". His end claim about racism is interesting regarding this:
http://www.newsmax.com/archives/arti...2/170022.shtml
I think that the Cubans have looked at what is happening in Iraq and have concluded that the United States will not be restrained by international law and international institutions," said Cuba specialist Wayne Smith, who was the top U.S. diplomat in Havana during former President Jimmy Carter's administration.
Carter's administration had some of the worst foreign policies of any president. Castro is using the war as an excuse to clean house. The U.S. will not attack Cuba, Castro is smart enough to realize this and is using his "battle against provocations" as an excuse to murder opponents. No one believes that the current war against terrorism could be applied to Cuba, they don't have oil after all.
The point in the original radio piece was this "How will leaving Saddam in power promote peace?" It won't. The current statistcis even from left biased groups are what 10.000? WHERE'S MY 500,000? I demand more dead brown skinned babies. This war so far has killed far less than Saddam has in the past or would have in the future. Whether we can win the peace remains to be seen, but I hardly consider people who promised me 100's of thousands dead as prophetic or even competent. The main complaint seems to be about over-turning International Institutions. Organizations mired in corruption, slow acting bureaucracies, and idealogical splits. Is Libya fit to give advice on human rights? How many other nations pursue UN resolutions to declare war? How many unelected dictatorships are members of the UN?