Bush, Castro and History

It’s incredible how many history altering events have occurred under this president’s watch: 9/11, the invasion of Afghanistan and Iraq, Arafat died, Sharon had to be hospitalized, the Liberal flag is flying over Latin America once more, Israel invades Lebanon, Bush had a chance to nominate two Supreme Court Justices, Katrina and now Fidel Castro may be disappearing from the scene. It’s really incredible.

This president’s administration is leaving a deep mark on history, if only it were for his competence and positive policies, or at least an ability to influence world opinion. However, the Bush administration’s mark on history is more like a disfiguring scar, rather than a mere mark; because of the administration’s total lack of competence, slowness to action and an unmatched ability to coalesce world opinion, including our long time allies, against the United States.

And now, as I mentioned earlier, Castro may be disappearing from history’s stage. It’s widely reported that Castro transferred control of Cuba to his brother Raul because, according to official Cuban reports, Castro had to be operated on. However, many in Little Havana, down in Florida, speculate that Castro may already be dead and that reports of the operation are just a diversion.

Imagine that: Castro may die under Bush’s presidency! Wow! Since the US imposed a blockade against Cuba more than fifty years ago now, all subsequent US presidents have prepared for the eventuality of a Cuba without Castro at the helm. And now, under this man, the most incompetent of all US presidents in recent history, if not in the entire nation’s history, Cuba may have to go without Castro at the helm. Incredible. What an opportunity to reshape the Western Hemisphere this is — and it comes to pass under an administration that, if history is any guide, will simply rat fuck the situation and, perhaps, drive us into the brink of war right of the coast of the United States (of course, that’s only if we use the administration’s recent foreign expeditions into Iraq and their messianic wet dreams to "reshape the Middle East").

Let’s just hope that Cuba can hold on till an adult administration, with a responsible and able foreign policy, comes to power in the United States in 2008.