By Andrew L. Jaffee

Talk about the tail wagging the dog, war hysteria, propaganda — whatever you want to call it: the terms so easily thrown about by the rabidly left-wing, X-Files, conspiracy theorists. Cuba’s communists, darlings to the limousine liberals, are suffering from a major case of paranoid schizophrenia. From the Houston Chronicle:

Former revolutionaries promised to keep fighting for Cuba today as the island beefed up security, saying it fears a U.S. attack during Fidel Castro’s health crisis.

The government, under the control of Castro’s brother, Defense Minister Raul Castro, has mobilized citizen defense militias and asked military reservists to check in daily. …

The Communist Party daily newspaper Granma issued a front-page statement by the Association of Combatants of the Cuban Revolution expressing confidence that Castro would be back on his feet soon.

Yeah, and the Pope ain’t Catholic. Castro will be “back on his feet soon,” i.e., plugged into a wall-socket. Remember Brezhnev and Chernenko? Their own people laughed at them, though only among trusted friends, for fear of the KGB and NKVD. Same batty time, same batty channel…

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Related: United States, Dictator Watch, Latin America, Communism / Socialism

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