THE BENDING OVER AND PLEASE MAY I HAVE ANOTHER LEFTIST STYLE OF DEPLOMACY AS THE DEMOCRAT PLAN FOR THE CASTRO BROTHERS DOES NOTHING TO BENEFIT THE OPPRESSED PEOPLES OF CUBA - JETBLUE OPENS ITS FIRST FLIGHT TO CUBA WITH A TICKET FOR CUBANS FROM THE USA BUT NO FLIGHTS OUT FOR THE OPPRESSED AS THE FEEL GOOD DO NOTHING RESULTS GETS PRESENTED HOME BY THE MSM

It was a historic moment in President Obama's gradual normalization of relations with communist Cuba: JetBlue's inaugural flight last week from Fort Lauderdale to Santa Clara -- a city of 242,000 in central Cuba --whose biggest claim to fame is a mausoleum holding the remains of Che Guevara and sixteen of his comrades. They were killed in 1967 during their ill-fated attempt to export Cuba's communist revolution to Bolivia -- whose people had no desire to live under Stalinist socialism.

 

Regular commercial flights to Santa Clara are not, to be sure, giving a green light for unrestricted tourism between the U.S. and Cuba. Rather, JetBlue's service will allow Cuban families in the U.S. (for the first time in more than 50 years since the trade embargo) to visit family members in Cuba on affordable and scheduled flights. In the past, charter flights were irregular and expensive. 

 

And what about ordinary Cubans who are fed up with their Caribbean gulag? JetBlue will offer no easy escape for them: no one-way tickets to Miami. They'll still have to make perilous journeys the old-fashioned way: aboard rickety vessels bound for Florida -- and freedom. Other U.S. air carriers also are planning scheduled flights. 

 

All in all it's a win-win for the Castro brothers. Their miserable economy gets badly needed foreign revenue. They get legitimacy. And Cuba's police state won't receive more tourists that it can handle.

 

This all raises troubling question about whether President Obama and JetBlue's president and chief executive, Robin Hayes, are useful idiots serving the interests of Raúl and Fidel Castro: specifically by facilitating the brothers' oppression as they simultaneously export their Stalinist revolution abroad to places like socialist Venezuela.  Indeed, JetBlue's chief executive announced the maiden flight with the sort of gushy feel-good sentiment that leftists adore. “For the first time in decades, families separated by only a short stretch of water can easily and affordably visit a loved one, attend an important occasion or visit a special place – and the role we play speaks directly to our mission of inspiring humanity,” he declared.

 

What lovely words: “inspiring humanity.” Somebody needs to tell JetBlue's chief that those lovely words have a far different meaning to Cuba's autocratic leaders. For them, “inspiring humanity” involves oppressing its own people in the name of social justice – while simultaneously exporting Cuban-style socialism abroad. In chaotic Venezuela, Cuba has helped to destroy democratic institutions and to oppress and impoverish ordinary Venezuelans.

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