A Good Week For Tyrants Castro is crowing in Cuba. The mullahs are merry in Tehran. Kim Jong-un is kicking it up in North Korea. Saturday, Cuban President Raul Castro delivered an hour-long victory speech before the Cuban National Assembly. The communist spies released by Obama were given a heros welcome. A gloating Castro declared, Now weve really won the war. He went on to state that any economic reforms would be intended to promote prosperous and sustainable communism. And just to clear up any lingering confusion about Obamas normalization of relations, Castro bluntly stated, No one should believe that improving relations with the United States means Cuba renouncing its ideas. The Obama White House made mindboggling concessions to the Cubans. What exactly did we get out of it? Not surprisingly, the mullahs in Tehran are looking at Cuba and concluding Obama will cave on sanctions. A spokesman for Irans Foreign Ministry said over the weekend that Cubas victory proves that policies of isolation and sanctions imposed by the major powers . . . are ineffective. Those nuclear negotiations just got a lot harder. The Iranians had little incentive to negotiate in good faith before. After seeing Cubas resistance get rewarded, they have zero incentive to do anything now. Meanwhile, the administrations non-response to North Koreas cyberattack on Sony continues to disappoint. Before heading off for his Hawaiian vacation, Obama downplayed the attack on Sony as just cyber-vandalism. Todays Washington Post reports that administration officials asked for Chinas help in responding to North Koreas attack. Thats insane! There is evidence that China likely helped the North Korean hackers. Not surprisingly, Beijing declined to lift a finger. Yesterday Internet service in North Korea went down for nine hours. Some speculate this might have been U.S. retaliation for the Sony attack, I mean vandalism. If that was Obamas idea of a proportional response, it was a waste of time. Temporarily annoying the hackers by taking down their Internet service for few hours is meaningless. According to the Associated Press, North Korea is one of the least-wired and poorest countries in the world. The AP adds that taking down North Koreas Internet would be a purely symbolic gesture and probably more inconvenient to foreigners. There is much more the administration could do to tighten sanctions and further isolate the Stalinist regime. But I wont hold my breath. --Gary Bauer, American Values, End of Day Report, Tuesday, December 23, 2014
Posted on: Wed, 24 Dec 2014 06:38:17 +0000
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