Ghouls' Night Out

The media this week had plenty of photos of Cuban-Americans celebrating the ill health of Fidel Castro. I was in a restaurant Monday night when the news was depicting the same scenes. How ghoulish. If Bush died and people throughout the world began to celebrate, the media would be condemning them as savages.

It was refreshing talking to my aunt last night, though. Her news is limited to what's on TV, and she couldn't understand at all the animosity against Castro. Unlike this country and its leaders, Castro has shown a real concern for the welfare of his people. My aunt had learned enough about Cuban education to see this demonstrated.

Of course, Castro's health has also spawned talk of post-Castro Cuba and the embargos. They always claim that these embargoes are because of Cuba's treatment of dissidents, as if the U.S. has some sort of humanely-based morality to its foreign policy. What I'd like to see is a break down of how few countries we would maintain economic relationships with if we applied these standards to everyone.