“bail-out” could be granted. However, after correctly weighing the danger from both the long term foreign interest of the U.S. and the probable domestic political consequences of inaction, President Obama decided wisely. It would be petty to try and diminish the success of his decision in this case. However let’s not forget the many other pirates continuously threatening the U.S. government with impunity.

The Somali pirates are not the only blackmailers hoping for a big score from President Obama and his minions. As expected, the North Korean regime launched a missile early this month to supposedly place a communications satellite in orbit. Kim Jong Il’s missile flopped falling in the Pacific Ocean after traveling slightly more than 2000 miles and over the Japanese Archipelago. The missile came back to Earth way short of reaching the necessary altitude for placing a satellite into orbit. However the North Koreans got a bit closer to their real goal of finding a suitable delivery system for their nuclear arsenal. The totalitarian
ruler of that artificial state thus succeeded again in his continuous defiance of the world community and American power.

A congressional delegation of the so-called Black Caucus of the House of Representatives visited Havana last week. That Congressional caucus is called “Black” only in reference to its racial --and racist-- composition.
In political and philosophical terms this group is not black but essentially Red. Far from representing the interests of its constituency the powerful Black Caucus consistently echoes the voices of every left- wing enemy of the U.S. That of course includes the Castro regime. The trip was not official nor was it encouraged by the White House. However, there was no condemnation of it.

To ease any doubts with respect to the loyalty of the congressmen toward the U.S. let’s consider the record of the leader of the group, Representative Barbara Lee from Oakland, CA . While an aide to then Congressman Ron Dellums (from the same district she now represents), Lee went with her boss to the Caribbean Island of Granada in 1983 to supposedly assess the danger posed to the U.S. by the construction of an international airport with striking military capabilities built by Castro’s soldiers on the Island. Dellums was also suspected of disloyalty to his country by many observers. In spite of that the Oakland congressman eventually became Chairman of the House Armed Services Committee chosen by the liberal democrat leadership of that Chamber.

Documents captured by the military during the U.S. led invasion in Granada confirmed that Dellums and Lee gave the former Granada Communist Prime Minister Maurice Bishop a draft of their report to the U.S. Congress before it was surrendered to that body. Those documents indicated that Dellums and Lee recommended that the Grenadian Marxist leader make amendments to the report so as to downgrade the strategic danger of the new airport to the security of the U.S.

Congresswoman Lee threatened columnist Joseph Farah with a civil action when he was the first one
denouncing her activities while visiting Granada with Congressman Dellums. However, faced with complete exposure she had second thoughts and her suit never materialized.

The protests of many observers, including Cuban-American journalists, were profoundly naive and misplaced regarding the refusal of the delegation to visit political prisoners in Castro’s dungeons, or at minimum express
concern about their predicament. This bunch was never bent on such a righteous path, rather quite the opposite. They never gave a thought on whether Dr. Biscet was black, white or purple. Their mission, far from one of advancing U.S. interests or the welfare of the American and Cuban people, was just an ill disguised ploy to help further Castro’s propaganda.

If there was ever one state in the world whose ultimate interests are in total opposition to those of the people of United States , its security and the integrity of its institutions, it is the regime of the Castro
brothers, imposed upon the Cuban people during the last 50 years. Even if we are oblivious to the fact that this totalitarian duet requested the nuclear obliteration of the U.S. by the Soviets in 1962, their continuous
protection of fugitives from American justice and their past and present collusion with subversives and terrorists should be more than enough reason for our profound circumspection toward warmer relations with them.

Obama’s politically oriented relaxation of the measures established by the previous American administration on travel and private deliveries to Cuba will not improve in any measurable level the welfare of the Cuban people nor stimulate the regime to a liberalization of its iron grip on the island nation. It would not produce any of the above just as Obama’s friendly gestures toward the regime in Iran and other fundamentalists
Islamic states have not produced any like reactions.

As the much maligned Florentine politician and social commentator Niccolo Machiavelli once wrote: “In politics it is more important to be feared
than to be loved”.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Basking in the dramatic victory achieved by the U. S. Navy over Somali pirates has the possible effect of blurring the U.S. government complacency on the continuous mischief of other pirates all over the world, some much closer to home and potentially a thousand times more dangerous.

The kidnapping of Captain Richard Philips from an American
cargo vessel with an American crew, by four Somalis on a rubber raft --the first such incident in 200 years-- is a perfect example of what the U.S. can still expect from some quarters of the world in the foreseeable future.

In spite of the outcome the pirates are not likely to cool their
actions even against American property. It is true that up until this incident, they were getting their loot at ease, unscathed and without fear. Still, the fact was not lost to every world enemy of the U.S. that this successful action was taken against just a handful of isolated pirates whose only asset was their American hostage.

Because the four pirates were only demanding a ransom of $2,000,000.00 for the life of Captain Philips, I was afraid their