No one comes as close to
telling it like it is as Marco Rubio. It is just that we have to understand
what he is saying. And in fact, he is saying as much as can be said on the
subject without indicting himself as to the real motive behind the reaction of
some Cuban expatriates and their descendents in America, to the latest news.
Rubio expresses his
sentiment in an article he wrote under the title: “A Victory for Oppression”
and the subtitle: “President Obama's policy is bad news for the Cuban people
living under a dictatorship, and it sends a dangerous message to the world.” It
was published on December 18, 2014 in the Wall Street Journal.
The news is that the
American government and its Cuban counterpart have decided to resume diplomatic
relations after five decades of estrangement. Why is this a bad move for the
people who protest it? Well, let Marco Rubio tell you why in his own words:
“The announcement on giving the regime access to American dollars is bad for
the millions who live in exile and lost everything at the hands of the
dictatorship.”
That was the edited
version of what he said. The full version contains talking points that should
sound familiar to readers of this kind of topics. Here are the points as they
were adapted by Rubio to suit the Cuban situation: The move is bad for the
“oppressed Cuban people.” It is “a victory for oppressive governments the world
over” which is why it will have “negative consequences for the America
people.”
To say that he worries
about the welfare of oppressed people the world over, and how this will affect
the people of America after making a case for the “millions who live in exile”
and whose hope for restitution has always rested on Cuba being denied “access
to American dollars,” is to force the reader to cry out: What? What on Earth is
this about?
To get a sense of what
this is about, we recall that before the fall of the Berlin Wall, the
industrial and commercial setups in East Germany were described as
being the most advanced in the Communist world, and close in sophistication to
their Western counterparts. But after the wall fell and the East Germans asked
to be unified with West
Germany , commentaries started to be made to
the effect that the setups in the East were worthless and just as primitive as
everywhere else in the Communist world. The intent was to talk down the value
of the assets in the East so as to buy them cheaply.
You see a version of this
kind of game being played every time a country gets into temporary trouble. The
financier who would not get off the phone giving instructions to his broker
even as he watches the building next door go up in flames, would put his broker
on hold to tell you that the assets he does not own worldwide are overpriced
and must be reduced, whereas the assets he owns are under-priced and must be
re-inflated.
In the case of Cuba , the
trouble that the country has been experiencing lasted for five decades, taking
a heavy toll on the development of the nation. The result has been that everything
on the island was cheapened, while at the same time the expatriates in America were
amassing great wealth. By now, these people should have enough money to buy all
of Cuba
many times over. This is what they always dreamed of doing, but worried sick
that the regime may be given access to American dollars, a move that will
re-inflate the Cuban assets and keep the regime safe and in place.
Well, the dream has now
turned into a nightmare. The tears that Marco Rubio and those like him shed are
real tears when they speak about themselves. But when they speak about the
Cuban people and all the oppressed people of the world, those tears turn into
the kind that crocodiles and the other reptiles shed.
It is unclear what they
will do now. What is known is that these people have adopted the Jewish
propaganda techniques for getting the Congress to dance to their tune. What
they had in mind was to Palestinize Cuba in the sense of turning it
into another offshore haven where the Congress was going to send money by the
tons, and see some of it return as campaign contributions into the accounts of
the treasonous members.