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It’s also about the Soviet Union, exile, the Cuban Missile Crisis, the Vietnam War, the assassination of John F. Kennedy ’40, the death of poetry in America, the place of poetry alongside technology, angelology, spies, the end of history and the opening into eternity through poetry...
...members of the Cuban American Undergraduate Student Association (CAUSA) will distribute medical and hygienic supplies to AIDS patients in Cuba...
...column “Albert Speer at Harvard” was insulting and morally obscene. To compare the Cuban regime with that of the Nazis—or even with that of Stalin’s Soviet Union—is to show the worst kind of specious moral equivalence...
Fidel Castro’s regime has since 1959 brought dignity and equality to the lives of millions of Cubans, has assured them of a decent standard of living and has given meaning to the lives of millions of others by engaging them in the effort to build a new society based on love and self-sacrifice rather than the self-indulgence that characterized Cuban society before 1959 and American society today. He has carried out this social revolution with little tolerance for dissent, but at the same time with a regard for human life and mercy that...
First, it trivializes World War II and the Holocaust. The Cuban government does not practice genocide or start world wars. It prosecutes and harasses some dissenters. Equating the two regimes makes no moral or analytical sense...