"[Cuban exiles] have been nothing more and nothing less than the epitomy of the American soul. And who have strived for not only the betterment of their lives and the progress and enrichment of the country that adopted them, but for what is morally and ethically right." – Val Prieto.
Well done to TV’s The West Wing, for inspiring the best tirade of pompous buffoonery I’ve seen quite in some time. I’m always amused when I think of Castro’s ingenious plan for making Cuba a better place in the early 1980s: after the US said it would give residence to any Cuban exiles who showed up, he packed the country’s madmen and criminals onto boats and sent them to Miami. This does say some things about the American soul, although probably not the ones Mr Prieto is thinking of.
(obviously Fidel Castro, while better than most US-backed Latin American rulers over the last 50 years, is a wanker and a tyrant. It’s just that the Miami Cubans exude wankerishness to such an extent that it’s hard not to support the other side of the debate on a basic and instinctive level…)
"who have strived for not only the betterment of their lives and the progress and enrichment of the country that adopted them, but for what is morally and ethically right."
Like those terrorists. Intervening in the politics of a country other than that which adopted them. Sounds like one of the least integrated communities in the US.
The irony of someone defending Cuban-Americans as typical of Americans when the American president is conducting wars of dubious legality and morality against essentially non-threatening nations of brown people in order to enrich some men in smoke-filled rooms is priceless. Priceless.
I forget, was it Stalin that made the statement about useful idiots, or Lenin? Nevermind. Six of one, half dozen of the other.