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CAMELOT AND THE HUGE CHINK IN ITS ARMOR

He was young, dashing, and refreshing. JFK brought youthful idealism to the very core of our nation. Woman swooned; men opined; children dreamed. In Paul Simon's words, "Time it was and what a time it was. A time of innocence. A time of confidences." But, author Joseph Conrad, who made it his devotion to warn others concerning the imprudence of idealism, might turn over in his grave at the obsession with the Kennedys.

And, I learned as a child that Camelot had a huge chink in its idealistic armor. I was 6 years old when the Cuban missile crises took place. I recall those tense moments on television that sent my young emotions into a tailspin. My dad, however, a WWII veteran, always assured me that the Russians were as afraid of us as we were of them. Years later he declared that Kennedy failed to get all those missiles out of Cuba and that he should never have allowed the Berlin wall to go up.  

Author Frederick Kempe recently published a book declaring Camelot to be not so Camelot. I'll let Beldar explain the matter and link readers to the book.

Most of you have read books or watched movies about the "Missiles of October," and for the last half century those have nearly uniformly depicted the Kennedy brothers as smart, calm, and shrewd actors who saved the world from disaster. Well, this book is the other half of that story — how those two brothers were culpably responsible for taking the world to the brink of that disaster, and indeed, how they took the U.S. from a position of overwhelming strength and unquestioned strategic superiority under Eisenhower to a full-scale retreat from American commitments around the globe in less than two years. You will definitely be better informed about world history, and particular about the Cold War, after you finish this book. And you'll probably wince the next time you hear anyone refer to Camelot.

Bismarck said that "God has a special providence for fools, drunks, and the United States of America." I hope that's true, but this book suggests that He certainly had a special providence for a hard-drinking, drug-addled, skirt-chasing young Irish-American fool who managed to become POTUS when he didn't have a clue how to perform that job responsibly. This book further convinces me that it was only by divine grace that the world survived long enough for me to see my fifth birthday.

ACTOR ANDY GARCIA FIGHTING CASTRO IN LA

Cuban dictator Fidel Castro has been an enigma all my life. Yes, boys and girls, I'm old enough to vividly remember the Bay of Pigs, Cuban missile crises and the Kennedy assassination. Castro made a good living playing mind games with US leaders down through the decades. In addition his rather Cinderella success stories leave liberal media types mindlessly infatuated with him. Starry eyed, and hypnotized they drool over his every move as if he really can perform miracles. 

But, the American media lives a utopian, idealistic, adolescent lie. Castro is a murderer who constantly deceives the US. He keeps his people in slavery and squaller. Americans should have dethroned this two bit thug long ago. 

Actor Andy Garcia knows the truth. He's one of the good guys and he's leading an awareness charge against Castro in LA. Click here to see Mr. Garcia in action.

PRESIDENT BUSH GETS IT RIGHT WITH CUBA

President Bush plans to rise above the cacophonous sounds of the contemporary media's orgasmic infatuation with Castro and challenge Cuban officials to let the people decide their fate after Castro departs. According to the New YorK Times:

President Bush is planning to issue a stern warning Wednesday that the United States will not accept a political transition in Cuba in which power changes from one Castro brother to another, rather than to the Cuban people. As described by an official in a background briefing to reporters on Tuesday evening, Mr. Bush’s remarks will amount to the most detailed response — mainly an unbending one — to the political changes that began in Cuba more than a year ago, when Fidel Castro fell ill and handed power to his brother Raúl. The speech, scheduled to be given at the State Department before invited Cuban dissidents, will introduce the relatives of four Cuban prisoners being held for political crimes. A senior administration official said the president wanted to “put a human face,” on Cuba’s “assault on freedom.” In effect, the speech will be a call for Cubans to continue to resist, a particularly strong line coming from an American president. He is expected to say to the Cuban military and police, “There is a place for you in a new Cuba.”

This news may come in light of the fading popularity Republicans sense from Cuban Americans particularly in light of restrictions placed on travel to Cuba. Nevertheless, Castro's Cuba remains a bitter commentary reminding us of a giant seemingly helpless in the hands of Lilliput. Let's hope Bush's speech leads the way in snapping the Lilliputian ropes and encouraging young Americans to remove the veil from Castro, so they might see this man for who he is- a Stalinist dictator whose policies have kept Cuba in the dark ages.