Tryon Daily Bulletin, Wed., Feb. 13, 1980
our press as a victory for
Communication
(A Hornet’s Nest)
When a gardener is attacked by
a swarm of hornets, if he is wise,
he doesn’t swat them individual
ly, but seeks out their nest and
destroys it.
For decades, Castro’s Cuba has
been America’s hornet’s nest.
When Castro came to power in
Cuba in 1959, Americans living in
Cuba and those well acquainted
with him and. his policies, knew
Castroj.was at heart a commun
ist. But it was several years after
1959 before our government
recognized this and took steps to
cut off our former close ties to
Cuba. We severed diplomatic
relations and stopped buying
Cuba’^ sugar, its chief crop and
the country’s life blood. This
threw Cuba into Russia’s arms.
Russia bought Cuba’s sugar and
armed her with modern weapons.
Eisenhower and his Secretary-
of State, John Foster Dulles,
recognized the danger of having a
Russian satellite on our door step
and took steps to eliminate it. But
this didn’t stop hundreds of ypper
class Cubans being driven into
exile by Castro. Allan Dulles,
Chief of American Intelligence,
was authorized to organize Cuban
expatriates in Yucatan and
Central America for an invasion
of Cuba to oust Castro. Allan
Dulles even found ships for them
and promised that an American
air force would cover the landing
and fly over Havana to prevent
Castro from interfering.
Unfortunately, Eisenhower’s
term as President expired and
John Kennedy succeeded him
before the coup could be pulled
off. President Kennedy had been
apprised of the plan and agreed
to back it. It was scheduled for
^pril 17,1961. The day before the
invasion was to take place,
Kennedy was dissuaded from
furnishing the air cover lest it
mar the United States image with
thellnited Nations. But this word
didn’t reach the invaders, so the
invasion took place without our
air cover and resulted in the
infamous slaughter of thousands
of Cubans at the Bay of Pigs on
Cuba’s southern coast.
This Castro ‘victory’ boosted
his ego and he proceeded to
convert Cuba into a Russian
military base equipped with
missile and missile sites. A
confrontation between Kennedy
and Krushchev that came close to
a war with Russia, and Russia
was forced to withdraw its
missiles. This was played up in
Kennedy, but in fact it was a
Krushchev victory since he
extracted a promise from Ken
nedy that the United States in the
future wouldn’t ipvade Cuba!
Thereafter, under the protec
tion of Russia, Castro acted as a
‘major power’ himself, interven
ing in Latin-American countries
and sending hundreds of thou
sands of Cuba soldiers to Africa
as Russian stooges to set up
Marxist regimes.
President Carter has just lately
discovered that the Russians had
an armed brigade of their own
soldiers in Cuba and was told that
this wasn’t ‘acceptable’' to the
United States. But Russia
ignored this and Carter let it
pass.
Now that Russia has overrun
Afghanistan and is poised for an
invasion of Iran and a move down
to the Persian gulf, it has
prompted an announcement from
Carter that the Middle East oil
fields and the Persian Gulf are of
vital interest to the United States
and would be defended by
military action if necessary. This
has met with general American
-approval though there are doubts
whether the United States is
strong enough vis-a-vis Russia to
make good on such warnings.
Meanwhile, to everyone’s sur
prise, President Carter has told a
visiting group of editors to the
White House lately that the
Caribbean area is not vital to the
United States and would not call
for military actiori to defend it!
We are willing to go half way
around the world to fight for the
Persian Gulf and the adjacent oil
fields, but not to counter Castro
or Russian moves next door to
us!
I am sure that many
Americans feel, if there is to be a
confrontation with Russia, we
would prefer to have the battle
ground on our side of the Atlantic
where we have a chance to win
because the logistics are in our
favor, rather than engaging in
another Vietnam War on the
other side of the world. If this
results in our losing the oil fields
to Russia, we are at Russia’s
mercv, are we not?
If the war is fought in our
hemisphere and Castro is ousted,
it would be a body blow to Russia,
who are spending currently, it is
said, between six and eight
million dollars a day to support
Castro. Ousting Castro should be
more effective than a boycott of
the Russian Olympic Games.
Moreover; it would be a revival of
the Monroe Doctrine, which
stated that the United States will
not tolerate European conquests
on this side of the Atlantic.
Let’s squelch Communism on
our very door step, which
threatens America’s vital secur
ity.
J. C. Luitweiler
Tryon, N. C.
February 12, 1980
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