Captain Castro??
2 August 2006
Editor, The Washington Times
Dear Editor:
You write that now is the first time since 1959 that Cuba has been without Fidel Castro "at the helm" ("Cubans ponder life without Fidel," August 2). Your metaphor is inappropriate. Castro was never so much a captain "at the helm" as he was a slave master incessantly flogging - often to death - innocent victims of his megalomania.
Sincerely,
Donald J. Boudreaux
Chairman, Department of Economics
George Mason University
Editor, The Washington Times
Dear Editor:
You write that now is the first time since 1959 that Cuba has been without Fidel Castro "at the helm" ("Cubans ponder life without Fidel," August 2). Your metaphor is inappropriate. Castro was never so much a captain "at the helm" as he was a slave master incessantly flogging - often to death - innocent victims of his megalomania.
Sincerely,
Donald J. Boudreaux
Chairman, Department of Economics
George Mason University
Posted by Don Boudreaux on
Tuesday April 24, 2007 at 1:48pm