12:05AM
Castro, post-near-death, admits his rule has been a failure
Saturday, September 11, 2010 at 12:05AM 
Associated Press report by way of Stewart Ross.
Jeffrey Goldberg of The Atlantic reports on his blog there what will surely be the headline of an upcoming piece (thus we are all eating up The Atlantic's teaser): in his interview of Fidel Castro, the back-from-the-dead dictator admits that Cuban socialism does not work and isn't worth exporting anywhere.
Now if he would only apologize for all the political prisoners whose lives he's ruined, the opponents he had killed and what not, I think we'd have the beginning of a beautiful confession of a life badly led.
Would that all of his victims could ponder such things in their old age. The old bastard might find it within himself to do the right thing and put a bullet into his head.
Reader Comments (4)
Fair call on the criticism of Castro, but bullet in his head? Don't get angry Tom, just relax and know the bastard is on his way out.
Very ironic that Guantanamo causes such a stink but the far larger prison camp next door gets little attention. I guess when you go down the "social justice path" you tend to get a pass. I wonder how President Chavez will take the news.
When I was a rookie an old time policemen told me "Kid you can shoot all the guys you want to on this job. You won't have any trouble remembering them. They will come and visit you in your dreams. They will be asking you why you did it."
Che killed a lot of men in his day. I wonder if he thought of them when those Bolivian Lancers lined him up against the wall.
Castro, Stalin, Pol Pot, Mao, all good communists and murderers.
Castro's contending that the authors have misinterpreted that statement. http://bit.ly/bE6v0Y