“The idea that some people need is a “strong hand” is exactly the racist attitude that prevails among American liberals who accept for others what they would not accept for themselves, namely abuses of human rights, censorship etc.”
Precisely, it’s more of the same liberal/progressive paternalism that is the hallmark of the DNC’s attitude toward blacks in this nation (both before and after they opposed integration and voting rights).
“No one can admire what Castro has done to his own people. But no one can ignore how he has humiliated the giant, impotent superpower up north…for half a century.”
This can be traced back to Kennedy’s gutless fence-sitting that doomed the brave men of Brigade 2506. After that, fear of Soviet reprisal in the form of nuclear war kept America from doing something substantive (like invading). After the fall of the Soviet Union attitudes toward the totalitarian regime became defined by Clinton’s (equally as gutless as Kennedy) policy of “wait-and-see,” with the belief that once the Castros were dead Communism would just evaporate.
