[Buddha-l] Castro on Ahmadinejad

[JKirkpatrick]

Thanks for changing the former subject.
Still reading the article, what a lucky guy he is to have been
invited to listen to Fidel's views in person.

I wish however that the author would also go after that
excecrable Floridian Pastor Jones, who plans to burn Korans. If
he goes through with it, Ahmadinejad (as well as the rest of the
Muslim world) will surely be involved.

jk
________________
Interesting article. 

Seems Castro has matured, perhaps even become a universal
humanist of some sort. He has admitted the missile fiasco was
wrong. That suggests that he is on the verge of admitting a lot
of other things he promoted were wrong too, such as evil
treatment of political dissidents and other types he figured, in
his Stalinist mentality of the era, were threats. 

It is in advanced age, when they are facing the END and thoughts
of their significance on the planetary stage,  that world
statesmen usually surface. This world needs more international
statesmen and women, like HHDL or Ms Mathai, like maybe even a
reformulated Fidel Castro. 

Nobody else alive today in the area south of our borders has so
far approached the level of international statesman. If the US
would stop boycotting Cuba, it would change, inevitably... and
the people could become prosperous. [Buddhist content:  It would
stop the prapanca of our collective karma to the degree that it'd
be one down, two to go (Afghanistan and Iraq).]

Like the Atlantic author, I'm no longer a doctrinaire socialist.
That brand hasn't worked.  Seems to me obvious that Capitalism
must be regulated, and that mixed state/private economies are the
best way to go in this era of technological decline, global
warming, and multinational bubbles. 

jk