The moral perversity of U.S. foreign policy is on full display right now with respect to two Latin American countries — Cuba and Venezuela. The fact that the both political parties, the mainstream press, and many regular Americans, including Christians, display no moral outrage over this perversity only goes to show the depths of moral depravity into which our nation has plunged.
Today, the U.S. government, led by President Trump and the U.S. national-security establishment (i.e., the Pentagon, the CIA, and the NSA) are targeting the Cuban populace with death by starvation and illness as a way to secure regime change in Cuba or a change in governmental policy in that country.
That is sick and pathetic. After all, isn’t that why people condemn terrorism? Terrorists attack innocent people in the private sector with the aim of securing a change in policy by their government. Most ordinary people, including Christians, can easily see the moral depravity of the mindset that guides terrorism. Unfortunately, many of them lack the ability to recognize that it’s the same mindset that is guiding those who are targeting the Cuban people with death, economic privation, and illness (as a result of not being able to secure adequate medical treatment or medicines) as a way to secure a change in regime or policy of the Cuban government.
Of course, the mindset guiding the latest economic siege against Cuba is nothing more than an extension of the brutal U.S. economic embargo that has been enforced against the Cuban people for more than 60 years. The idea has always been to use the embargo in combination with Cuba’s socialist system to squeeze the life out of the Cuban people, with the aim of having them rise up in a violent revolution against their own government and replace it with a brutal pro-U.S. puppet dictatorship, such as the one that preceded the Castro regime.
How many people would die in such a revolution, especially given that the Cuban people are not permitted to own guns (a policy that many U.S. statists would love to foist onto the American people)? It doesn’t matter how many. What matters is regime change or a change in governmental policy. If tens of thousand of Cuban people, including children, have to do die to achieve regime change or a change in policy, that’s just the way it has to be. After all, don’t forget— all these dead people will have been made to die for “freedom” — that is, the “freedom” to have a new regime that does the bidding of the U.S. Empire.
There is an important point to note: There is no upward limit on the number of Cubans who might need to die to achieve regime change or a change in policy. Any number, even tens of thousands, is considered to be okay. Recall the infamous words of Madeleine Albright, the U.S Ambassador to the United Nations, when asked whether the deaths of half-a-million Iraqi children from UN and U.S. sanctions were “worth it.” Her answered reflected the official pervertedmindset of U.S. officials. She said that yes — those half-a-million deaths of children were, in fact, “worth it.” By “it” she meant regime change.
So would the deaths of tens of thousands of Cuban children and Cuban adults. Those deaths would be considered “worth it” too. American Christians should ponder that fact this Sunday when they attend church.
One of the official rationales for this brutal, deadly, morally perverse policy is that Cuba is run by a socialist-communist regime. During the U.S. government’s Cold War racket, the idea was that the Reds were coming to get us. Unfortunately, frightened Americans bought into this nonsense and, therefore, had no problems supporting the incessant and never-ending U.S. aggression against Cuba, including the embargo, assassination (i.e., murder) attempts against Cuban leader Fidel Castro, and deadly state-sponsored terrorism against Cuban citizens and enterprises.
Once the Cold War came to an end, however, the U.S. aggression against Cuba, unfortunately, did not. The embargo continued, and it has been tightened ever since, with the U.S. Empire today ensuring that the economic strangulation becomes complete with a blockade of much-needed petroleum into the country.
The rationale? That Cuba is still run by a socialist-communist regime, which supposedly poses a grave threat to U.S. “national security.” Never mind, of course, that the U.S. government has its own favorite socialist programs, such as Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, welfare, the Federal Reserve (i.e., monetary central planning), immigration controls (i.e., immigration central planning), public (i.e., government) schools, Amtrak, and much more. Apparently it’s only Cuban socialism, not American socialism, that is bad.
Meanwhile, further reflecting the deep moral perversity and utter hypocrisy of U.S. foreign policy, the U.S. government is now partnering and cooperating with the socialist-communist, narco-terrorist regime in Venezuela. Keep in mind that the Venezuelan regime was not a “free-market, capitalist” regime headed by a socialist-communist president. Instead, the entire regime is socialist-communist. Even worse, U.S. officials for years have repeatedly told us that the Venezuelan regime is a “narco-terrorist” regime — that is, one that is knowingly engaged in violating U.S. drug laws and terrorism laws.
Don’t forget, after all, that acting Venezuelan President Delcy Rodriquez has a long history of Marxist-oriented activity, including her longtime service within the Hugo Chavez and Nicolás Maduro socialist-communist regimes. The same goes for the Venezuelan government’s Minister of the Interior, a man named Diosdado Cabello, who was ultimately responsible for the brutal suppression of protests against the failure of Maduro to abide by the presidential election results against him. It’s worth mentioning that U.S. officials have a criminal indictment hanging over his head, just as they have with Maduro. In fact, Rodriquez herself is the target of DEA drug investigation and could easily be indicted herself.
This is the regime — a socialist-communist, narco-terrorist regime — with which the U.S. government is now partnering, while at the same time targeting the Cuban people with death because of their failure to out their socialist-communist regime from power and replace it with a pro-U.S. regime that will follow the orders and do the bidding of the U.S. Empire, just as the socialist-communist, narco-terrorist regime in Venezuela is now doing.
Meanwhile, all of this moral perversity is considered to be normal, not only by the U.S. mainstream press but also by many Americans, including many who go to church every Sunday. The moral perversity and utter hypocrisy are disgraceful and pathetic.
