As you ponder the mystery of whether God chooses to act directly on human affairs, the case of Fidel Castro presents a challenging question: Why would God allow Castro to live 90 years, oppressing and brutalizing the Cuban people for 57 of those years?
The Cuban people may find a degree of liberation soon, or they may have to wait even longer. But one thing is clear: there would be no relief while Castro lived and ruled. There was only a steady escalation of tyranny in the old Soviet Union until Stalin died; the same with Mao Tse-tung and other totalitarian beasts and butchers.
JFK was very clear in his opinion of Fidel Castro. So were LBJ, Nixon, and Ford. Carter was, of course, an exception: he never met a totalitarian dictator he didn’t embrace. But then Reagan and Bush and Clinton renewed and maintained the bipartisan agreement that Fidel was a first-class bastard. Continue reading ‘The late, lamented Commandante Castro’
