Let’s Cozy Up to Those Who Despise Us!

America is so evil they could afford this boat.

Fresh from his trip to Cairo where President Obama didn’t use the word “terrorism” once and said it was fine for Iran to develop nuclear weapons and how the U.S. would never interfere in the governing of another country in an effort to make friends and influence people we have yet another example that those countries that hate us will still hate us, even if Obama pulls a chair out for them at the dinner table.

Most of us have heard about the American couple, now in their 70s, who worked for the U.S. Department of State for over 30 years and just got nabbed for being spies.  At this point, nobody knows what damage they did in supplying who-knows-what information to Cuba.

It seems as though Walter Kendall Myers decided to become a traitor to his nation in 1978 after he visited Cuba.

You may be asking yourself… what does a 30 year long spy who visited Cuba in 1978 have to do with President Obama speaking in Cairo?  Well, both examples share one common thread: letting your guard down foolishly and being played by the opposition.

It seems that Myers was able to visit Cuba in the first place because another naive president allowed the travel ban to Cuba to expire:

The travel and remittance restrictions stem from the embargo, put in place in 1962 after Fidel Castro came to power in Cuba. President Jimmy Carter allowed the travel ban to lapse.

Carter always was “touchy feely” about saying nasty things about the people who hated us – he refused to condemn the Soviet Union as evil (Reagan called them the “Evil Empire” which they were).

The same article from the Wall Street Journal says Obama plans to mimick Carter’s policy towards Cuba very closely:

President Barack Obama plans to lift longstanding U.S. restrictions on Cuba, a senior administration official said, allowing Cuban-Americans to visit families there as often as they like and to send them unlimited funds.

 To say that we should be open to regimes that hate us is stupid.  This is what Fidel Castro had to say about it all:

Former Cuban leader Fidel Castro said in an article published yesterday on the CubaDebate Web site that, if news reports about the Myerses were true, “I can’t help but admire their disinterested and courageous conduct on behalf of Cuba.”

The Cuba Libre isn't just a drink.

The dangerous thing about opening up to Cuba (or any other hostile regime) is that they will exploit what Liberals like to call “openess” and use it against us:

Contrary to conventional thinking, the Castros aren’t interested in academic exchanges, telecommunications or travel, despite their calls for it. They consider us an enemy they want to neutralize by any means necessary. So they use the weak man’s method — covert influence. For them, travel, telecommunications and academic exchanges make it easier to recruit agents. Fact is, Cuba is a police state and does one and only one thing well: spy.

Pretending to be a mendicant republic that poses no threat to the U.S., the Cubans have a clever scheme. Unlike other spy services, they recruit only ideologically motivated agents like Myers. That enables its agents to skirt security screening to some extent. Most of the scrutiny is designed to find vulnerabilities, such as financial problems that make a prospective spy more willing to take cash.

People may say: “What harm is Cuba to the U.S.?”  The “harm” is that any intel they glean from us they can easily pass along to North Korea, Iran, Russia, or any other country they so choose.

The folly of Liberalism is that it seems to assume everybody will do the right thing if treated the way Liberals think they should be treated.  We know Carter’s unwillingness to go to the mat with the Soviet Union contributed towards their invasion of Afghanistan and that Reagan’s hardball led to the fall of the Berlin Wall.

Only time will tell what Obama’s “openess” towards theocratic dictators in Cairo will get us.

For the Liberal, being “weak” is being strong and being “strong” is being weak.

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