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DAVE X asked this hypothetical question:
Lets say that instead of sticking with their boy Batista in Havana, the US
imperialists had had a more enlightened approach and sent a couple teams of
green Berets to help out Fidel and Che. Would you have supported Batista?
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WALTER LIPPMANN responds:
Looking at history with the 20-20 clarity
hindsight provides, I'm not so sure that
I could tell you what I might have thought
in the days before I became a politically
conscious individual.
US intervention in Cuba was an active part
of the situation. I find it rather doubtful
that the US would have been trying to take
the sides of the revolutionaries rather
than the forces it had backed for the
preceding seven years. It's certain that
the US had to have sent feelers of some
sort to the revolutionaries. Louis has had
some comments to make about this before.
Fidel raised funds in the United States,
but he never sought US intervention in the
Cuban struggle. Jose Marti's legacy would
have prevented even the thought of that...
But I am sure that, in the years preceding
my birth, I would have favored Morocco's
independence during the Spanish civil war.
Looking back in it now, I probably would
have opposed Washington's refusal to sell
arms and other military supplies to Spain's
Republican government, too.
But working in the virtual world is so much
easier than in the messy world of actual
reality...
Walter Lippmann
La Habana, Cuba
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WALTER LIPPMANN
Havana, Cuba
Editor-in-Chief, CubaNews
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CubaNews/
"Cuba - Un Paraíso bajo el bloqueo"
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