On May 7, 10:53 am, perdiguiller <perdiguil...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Reflections by Comrade Fidel Castro
>
> Those persons who deal with these issues know that on September 11 of 2001
> our people expressed its solidarity to the US people and offered the modest
> cooperation that in the area of health we could have offered to the victims
> of the brutal attack against the Twin Towers in New York.
> We also immediately opened our country's airports to the American airplanes
> that were unable to land anywhere, given the chaos that came about soon
> after the strike.
> The traditional stand adopted by the Cuban Revolution, which was always
> opposed to any action that could jeopardize the life of civilians, is well
> known.
> Although we resolutely supported the armed struggle against Batista's
> tyranny, we were, on principle, opposed to any terrorist action that could
> cause the death of innocent people. Such behavior, which has been
> maintained for more than half a century, gives us the right to express our
> views about such a sensitive matter.
> On that day, at a public gathering that took place at Ciudad Deportiva, I
> expressed my conviction that international terrorism could never be
> erradicated through violence and war.
> By the way, Bin Laden was, for many years, a friend of the US, a country
> that gave him military training; he was also an adversary of the USSR and
> Socialism. But, whatever the actions attributed to him, the assassination
> of an unarmed human being while surrounded by his own relatives is something
> abhorrent. Apparently this is what the government of the most powerful
> nation that has ever existed did.
> In the carefully drafted speech announcing Bin Laden's death Obama asserts
> as follows:
> "…And yet we know that the worst images are those that were unseen to the
> world. The empty seat at the dinner table. Children who were forced to grow
> up without their mother or their father. Parents who would never know the
> feeling of their child's embrace. Nearly 3,000 citizens taken from us,
> leaving a gaping hole in our hearts."
> That paragraph expressed a dramatic truth, but can not prevent honest
> persons from remembering the unjust wars unleashed by the United States in
> Iraq and Afghanistan, the hundreds of thousands of children who were forced
> to grow up without their mothers and fathers and the parents who would never
> know the feeling of their child's embrace.
> Millions of citizens were taken from their villages in Iraq, Afghanistan,
> Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, Cuba and many other countries of the world.
> Still engraved in the minds of hundreds of millions of persons are also the
> horrible images of human beings who, in Guantánamo, a Cuban occupied
> territory, walk down in silence, being submitted for months, and even for
> years, to unbearable and excruciating tortures. Those are persons who were
> kidnapped and transferred to secret prisons with the hypocritical connivance
> of supposedly civilized societies.
> Obama has no way to conceal that Osama was executed in front of his children
> and wives, who are now under the custody of the authorities of Pakistan, a
> Muslim country of almost 200 million inhabitants, whose laws have been
> violated, its national dignity offended and its religious traditions
> desecrated.
> How could he now prevent the women and children of the person who was
> executed out of the law and without any trial from explaining what happened?
> How could he prevent those images from being broadcast to the world?
> On January 28 of 2002 the CBS journalist Dan Rather reported through that TV
> network that on September 10 of 2001, one day before the attacks against the
> World Trade Center and the Pentagon, Osama Bin Laden underwent a
> hemodialysis at a military hospital in Pakistan. He was physically unfit to
> hide and take shelter inside deep caves.
> Having assassinated him and plunging his corpse into the bottom of the sea
> are an expression of fear and insecurity which turn him into a far more
> dangerous person.
> The US public opinion itself, after the initial euphoria, will end up by
> criticizing the methods that, far from protecting its citizen, will multiply
> the feelings of hatred and revenge against them.
>
> Fidel Castro Ruz
> May 4, 2011
> 8:34 p.m.
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