Predictable History, Unpredictable Past

 
 
'I can’t support it if everyone who has a blog has a special privilege...I’m not going to go there.'

By Elliot Cohen
It is the phrase of the moment, dropping from the lips of television reporters and radio commentators, salting the columns of pundits, earnestly being spoken by furrow-browed politicians of serious mien.
The families of the fallen are entitled to war-weariness. So are those wounded in body or spirit, and their loved ones. The mother who has sent her son to war has a right to war-weariness, as does the father who prepares to send his daughter to battle...

But, other wars will continue...
And, so will the cover-ups...
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Paul Haven of The Washington Times reports on an interesting event.  If Castro were a libertarian or conservative claiming that the free market system 'no longer works,' it would be front page news in the United States:
'Fidel Castro told a visiting American journalist that Cuba’s communist economic model doesn’t work......