The Greek Chorus

continues, as Bush gets bashed left and right for having the audacity to propose that Cuba should be ruled by its people and not a mafia family in Communist clothing and their apparatchiks. Oh, no, wait a minute, the Greek Chorus often functioned as the voice of common sense.

And you have to ask, when you as a Cuban American columnist find yourself parroting the lines better left to those who have last names like Smith, as in Wayne, and when the Cuban regime likes your position so much that they devote an article in Granma to it, you have to ask yourself am I really on the side of the angels here?

I'm not gonna go into the embargo as the cause of misery, yada...yada...yada. As for the dissident who found Bush's call on the military to refrain from killing its own people and his insistence that they be allowed to freely choose their own government interventionist and high-handed, I feel doubly sorry.

I've written it before: the way Cubans on the island view Americans has been affected by the steady diet of official propaganda, compounded by the anti-Americanism of the vacationing Europeans. The Iraqis have paid a heavy price for believing the line of palaver fed them by the "world opinion." It is only now that they are realizing the truth. Read the offending article here.

To end on a lighter note, Oscar Corral has been resurrected for the occasion. Check his post here. And do read the comments. The discussion will help you lower your blood pressure after the first one.