A valid point.
Now look, Gawain. Stop the "misunderstood-martyr-whom-everyone-picks-on" act. It is a fact of the world that open democratic societies are expected to conform to certain minimum standards of behaviour, and if they look like going the wrong way about that it is only to be expected their peers will give them a lot of flak for it. Dictatorships, totalitarian regimes etc. are in practice judged by wholly different (and by necessity rather lower) standards, and as far as those go Castro is actually from the more palatable end.
These two sets of standards aren't really compatible, beyond the general consensus that those of the latter group tend to be pretty disagreeable by those of the first.
The point here is that the USA has been slipping to the lower set of standards with worrisome regularity as of late. Well, it's not exactly a new phenomenom, but then it did get chewed on in the earlier cases too. And it's receiving its due amount of crap from the other open societies as a result.
If you don't like it, tough cookies. The world doesn't turn to your convenience. But at least can these embarassingly whiny attempts at red herring evasions.
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