The day Castro will never die

That day will be a day of shame for generations to come. Our third humiliation in modern time.

In Vietnam, international tourist and business travellers can visualize poster, monuments, and other reminiscences of the American defeat. It is limited to the Vietnam territory, but 85 million people, every day, remember.

In Iraq, the day we will be forced to leave (we were not invited in the first place), again, numerous monuments will remind the international visitors about the American fiasco. It will be limited to Iraq, but 300 million people in surrounding countries will remember, day after day.

The day Castro leaves Cuba, he will become an international symbol, and the greatest humiliation for the American people (worse than Vietnam and Iraq).

Our children, grand children, great grand children, and generations more to come, will be ashamed of us, and the whole world will remind them, and remember :

- the dances in the street of Miami

- the kidnapping of a child

- an embargo that became counterproductive

- our double standard

- our irresponsibility to 11 million real Cubans

- the seed that created animosity with 500 million Latino Americans

To our knowledge, there is presently no statue nor monument of Fidel Castro in Cuba. Will come a day when his stature will be exhibited in a great majority of countries, and cities. Three main reasons :

1) he represents eleven million people who, for fifty years, stand up against a foreign empire

2) he was not perfect but did some good for his people

3) he had the courage to fight, and risk his life for his country. He knew the profound meaning to be Commander in Chief.

That day, international tourist and business travellers, all over the world, will again remember Fidel Castro, but also, our disastrous and unwise Foreign Policy. That day will become our day of infamy.

We will never be able to erase the last fifty years. Now, the least we could do : ask our New Congress to change the course with Cuba, and free the real Cubans from the unfair barriers we have imposed to them. But time is running short.

Our future generations will surely appreciate a nota bene under Castro international recognition, with a mention that, finally, in 2007, the American people recognize the mistake of their leaders, and initiated a new rapprochement with Cuba, via a more mature, clairvoyant, and responsible New Congress.

We have a dream : let's present a birthday gift to Castro. Lift the embargo. For once, it will be possible to give a cake, and eat it too.

"Your candle's burned out long before. Your legend never will" - Candle in the Wind, Elton John.

N.B.

1) Members of the 110th Congress, just imagine the propaganda to come. It will spread around the world. Just think about Che Guevera. Castro will be greater. Songs, books, films, videos, t-shirts, internets, etc. Do you really want to torment your own children? Better late, than never for "faire amende honorable".

2) It is amazing and revolting to see a group of ex-Cubans asking NOW for the lifting of sanctions. And they dare to admit, after so many years, that : - we need a new opening with Cuba - very important to achieve a greater efficiency in the use of USAID - the travel restrictions did not work -lifting restrictions would help, rather than waste US taxpayer money.

This sudden (and hypocrite) change of mood....Is it related to the report asked by the New Congress ??????

The Facilitator