Yesterday, Barack Obama offered his hand in friendship to the totalitarian dictatorship in Cuba. Apparently, the current administration is willing to forget the decades of Cuban-sponsored guerilla war in Latin America. Apparently, the United States is willing to forget the cold-blooded murder of American citizens and residents over international waters that occurred during the “Brothers to the Rescue Shootdown” in 1996. Obama seems all too willing to forget the suffering of the American people in order to fulfill his agenda. He does not put any preconditions on meeting with Castro, not even for an apology for the murder of our citizens.

It was ironic that Obama said these remarks on the 48th anniversary of the Bay of Pigs invasion, when Cuban exiles tried to take back their country from the communist grip… or maybe it was planned. When the invasion took place, the exile brigade was awaiting air support from the United States, but the Kennedy administration refused to send the planes, and after a few days, the communists defeated the pro-democracy forces. This created the foundation for a Republican Cuban-American community and a deep mistrust of the Democrats. Even then, the Democrats had no stomach for a fight with communism, a fight that freedom would and will invariably win… but Cuban-Americans have long suspected that the ideological similarity between the dictators in Cuba and the demagogues in the Democratic Party is the real culprit. Obama has shown a propensity towards softness in foreign policy and disrespect of America; not to mention that Obama chooses as one of his political heroes to be John F. Kennedy. Obama has betrayed the idea of freedom in Cuba… and spit in the face of the Americans who were gunned down by the Castro regime on February 24, 1996: Carlos Costa, Armando Alejandre Jr., Mario de la Peña, and Pablo Morales.

-AG