How about a little march saying that GITMO and drones recruit terrorists?

My new American Thinker post.

Has the international left gone on vacation?  We have not heard much from them about GITMO recruiting terrorists or President Obama's drones killing civilians.

Today, Sen Graham of South Carolina reported that drones have killed 4,700 people.  I think that we can safely say that there is some "collateral damage" in those numbers.

I support the drone program. It is the right thing to do because it shows terrorist leaders that we will find them 24/7. I don't like the collateral damage but they started this by killing 3,000 innocent people on 9/11. So war is war and that is that. We can ground the drones the minute that they stop waging war on us.

Of course, the real story is the silence from the left here, there and everywhere.

Where are the French politicians saying that France sent troops into Mali without going to the UN?  Where are the Democrats too?

Where is the Nobel Peace Prize committee now that their 2009 recipient is dropping bombs, invading countries and acting more like Bush every minute?  The Committee gave President Obama the prize because he was seen in Europe as the anti-Bush.  They must be having indigestion in Europe every time that they read about the Obama administration turning into Bush II in the anti-terror campagin.

Where are the demonstrators in European cities calling Obama a war criminal and carrying posters of BO like Hitler?  We had weeks of such demonstrations back in 2003.

I don't know about you but I'd love to turn on the TV and watch a nice demonstration in Paris or London criticizing the aggressive policies of the Obama administration.

Or maybe a march saying that President Obama is holding detainees in Guantanamo indefinitely.

 
Please make my day.  I want the international left to prove to all of us that their harsh attacks on President Bush were based on principle rather than politics.

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Dear Yoani: We need to talk por favor!

As you know, Cuban blogger Yoani Sanchez is on a world tour.   She is a great writer and should be hailed as a courageous woman for criticizing the Castro dictatorship.  

However, her comments in Brazil are very confusing.  She called for an end to the embargo and for the "5" to be released.     

Her reasoning was rather weird.  She wants to see them released because the Cuban government is spending too much money talking about it:

""The amount of money that my country’s government is spending on this worldwide campaign, on [ad] space of international media by the Interior Ministry, the number of hours spent in schools talking about those five people, in order to bring that campaign to an end, they should free them,’’ said Sánchez, 37. “I’m worried about my country’s coffers and would prefer their release to see if they save more [money] because there are more issues on the table.""  (MiamiHerald)

What other issues are on Yoani's table?  What could be more important than the rule of law?  or bringing justice to people who kill innocents?  or what about the money that the dictatorship spends defending the jailing of Mr Gross?  or misleading the world about the "counter-revolutionary activities" of Las Dams en Blanco?

Furthermore, there is no evidence that lifting the embargo or releasing the "5" will make life easier for Yoani or other Cubans.  On the contrary, Castro will hail both of these changes as "victories" and engage in more repressive behavior.

Her comments about the embargo are wrong but understandable given that she grew up in Cuba.  I don't think that she has seen the whole picture.  We need to sit down with Yoani and show her that "fidelismo" not "el embargo" has destroyed Cuba.

Last, but not least, let's remember that Yoani's husband is back in Cuba.  We don't know for sure whether there may be repercussions against him or other family members.  Let's remember that the Cuban government is still a repressive dictatorship.

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