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September 10, 2010
Cuba's Fidel Castro Gives Up on Communism: "The Cuban model doesn't even work for us anymore"
Cuba's Fidel Castro Gives Up on Communism: "The Cuban model doesn't even work for us anymore"
"The Cuban model doesn't even work for us anymore," Castro tells an American journalist when asked whether the Cuban economic and political system was worth exporting.
Cuba’s Fidel Castro used an interview with a U.S. magazine to urge Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to abandon Holocaust denial and refrain from “slandering” Jews and confess that the Cuban model doesn't work.
Castro, whose recent public pronouncements have been dominated by warnings that a U.S. or Israeli attack on Iran could spark a nuclear war, invited a journalist with The Atlantic, Jeffrey Goldberg, to Havana to discuss the writer’s recent article on Israel and Iran.
In the first installment of several Atlantic articles on their exchanges, Castro told Goldberg that the Iranian government must understand the consequences of anti-Semitic theology.
“This went on for maybe 2,000 years,” the 84-year-old former Cuban president said. “I don’t think anyone has been slandered more than the Jews. I would say much more than the Muslims.”
Iran’s government should understand that the Jews “were expelled from their land, persecuted and mistreated all over the world, as the ones who killed God,” Castro said.
“Over 2,000 years they were subjected to terrible persecution and then to the pogroms. One might have assumed that they would have disappeared; I think their culture and religion kept them together as a nation,” he told Goldberg.
The reporter asked him if he would be prepared to say that to the Iranian president and Castro responded: “I am saying this so you can communicate it.”
In Castro’s judgment, Iran’s ability to “inflict damage” is being underestimated.
“Men think they can control themselves but (U.S. President Barack) Obama could overreact and a gradual escalation could become a nuclear war,” the Cuban leader said.
In the second installment from a series of meetings with Castro, Goldberg says Castro was asked whether the Cuban economic and political system was worth exporting.
"The Cuban model doesn't even work for us anymore," Castro responded. He didn't expand on the comment.
Wild Thing's comment........
Hello Castro, tell that to Obama, Pelousy and Reid. They’re still true believers. Meanwhile, in other news, Sean Penn’s, Oliver Stone, Michael Moore, Danny Glover, Obama's ADMINISGTRATION and many on the left, and others head explodes. Meanwhile Chavez’s response was, “NOW he tells me.”
Well haha , now the RATS are now officially to the left of Fidel Castro. HELP we have GOT to VOTE these people out!
Posted by Wild Thing at September 10, 2010 05:48 AM
Comments
This is a classic. This dumb bastard, it took him 52 years to realize this...D'oh, and imagine that the communist system doesn' work...The left has to be yanking their hair out in clumps...screaming why did he have to say that.
Posted by: Mark at September 10, 2010 09:43 AM
"The Cuban model doesn't even work for us anymore." Hey, somebody tell Bill Ayers!
Posted by: Anonymous at September 10, 2010 07:04 PM
"The Cuban model doesn't even work for us anymore." Hey, somebody tell Bill Ayers!
Posted by: Anonymous at September 10, 2010 07:04 PM
