tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21674624.post6007300520913168263..comments2024-02-21T05:16:22.788-05:00Comments on Two Weeks Notice: A Latin American Politics Blog: Cuba and realityGreg Weekshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15765114859595124082noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21674624.post-77085795196577846882010-09-28T11:47:14.597-04:002010-09-28T11:47:14.597-04:00Mr Weeks appears more offended by Mary O'Grady...Mr Weeks appears more offended by Mary O'Grady than the brutal dictator who has spent 50 years destroying the Cuban people.Paulhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06843411100678811292noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21674624.post-34593637640576599142010-09-27T22:20:43.469-04:002010-09-27T22:20:43.469-04:00so attacking Castro, even with crazy arguments, is...<i>so attacking Castro, even with crazy arguments, is not too bad.</i><br /><br />Yes, because clearly the most effective way to criticize Cstro is for his critics to appear unhinged. /snark>Randy Paulhttp://www.beautifulhorizons.netnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21674624.post-1908492034340344632010-09-27T21:57:19.335-04:002010-09-27T21:57:19.335-04:00She's a nutcase, but so what? Look who she is ...She's a nutcase, but so what? Look who she is attacking!<br /><br />If in 1978 someone had written that Pinochet's regime was a threat to world peace it would have been crazy too. But it would have been for a noble cause.<br /><br />Same here. Castro is worse than Pinochet in almost every quantifiable aspect (years as a dictator, people displaced or affected, economic results) so attacking Castro, even with crazy arguments, is not too bad.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21674624.post-52194214827427734402010-09-27T18:37:57.732-04:002010-09-27T18:37:57.732-04:00Agreed, but assuming she's harmless is a mista...Agreed, but assuming she's harmless is a mistake and namecalling doesn't paper over that. There are plenty more peanuts in her jar and some of them wield real power, so all they need is her as a standard bearer to promote some pretty dangerous 70s think and drag us back to the 'for or against us' (that enough metaphor mixing y'all?)Ottohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03069822714021884725noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21674624.post-40336417533808728132010-09-27T18:37:17.906-04:002010-09-27T18:37:17.906-04:00This comment has been removed by the author.Ottohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03069822714021884725noreply@blogger.com