Bill Richardson was disappointed and surprised about his treatment at the hands of the totalitarian regime in Cuba who refused to let him take their big bargaining chip home playing the role of conquering hero.
Liberals expect benevolence and virtue from everyone except white, middle class Christians, even recognized state sponsors of terror like the Castros.
Human Rights groups report significant recent increases in detentions and violence against dissidents. The Castros have a 50 year track record of murderous, repressive rule that has impoverished 11 million people.
Cuba’s refusal to release Alan Goss was described as a stunning reversal. Really? Stunning? Stunning like North Korea’s proficient and longstanding abuse of American diplomats, Iraq’s contravention of eleventeen dozen United Nations resolutions, Pakistan’s decisions to share classified US military equipment with the Chinese, Russian military aggression in former Soviet satellites? The list goes on.
It seems that no amount of brutal experience will ever persuade diplomatic savants like Governor Richardson that dictators and terrorists don’t see the world the same way as middle Americans. Cuba is a profound tragedy, not a threat. But this interaction is representative of the kind of thinking that does represent the only potentially fatal threat to America.
A stone’s throw from our own coast, a pair of geriatric thugs are holding an American citizen because the issue is not what we can do, it’s what we are willing to do. That’s something people like Fidel and Raul Castro understand with savage clarity. It’s a truth we need to embrace to protect ourselves from threats external and internal. It’s a truth which could prevent people like Governor Richardson from wandering through life in a perpetual state of bewildered shock.
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