America’s Astounding Human Rights Hypocrisy in Cuba
The idea of the United States lecturing Cuba or any other country about human rights comes down somewhere between embarrassing and nauseating.
Our American president’s long-overdue visit to Cuba was a great thing for many reasons.
But maybe our elected officials should cease their hypocritical yapping about the human rights situation in Cuba until they come clean about what’s happening here in the United States.
To be sure, there is much to say about how this authoritarian regime has handled dissent. The details abound in the corporate media.
But the idea of the United States lecturing Cuba or any other country on this planet about human rights comes down somewhere between embarrassing and nauseating. Consider:
There is, of course, much more. But at very least we hope that President Obama admitted to some or all of the above amidst his cringe-worthy lectures to the Cubans on the sacred nature of human rights.
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