At least some of the Left are criticizing Cuba for its recent crackdown and executions. Bully for them, even if they can’t help but slip in the obligatory “But Bush is a tyrant, too” schtick.
Cuba, in turn, isn’t happy.
The government responded by publishing rebukes in the Communist Party daily Granma. In one letter published Saturday, a group of well-known Cuban intellectuals urged their colleagues to stop criticizing the island.
Entitled “Message from Havana to our friends in faraway places,” the letter said the recent statements by leftist intellectuals “are being used in the great campaign trying to isolate us and prepare the stage for military aggression by the United States against Cuba.”
Cuba made a similar assertion about several of its Latin American allies earlier this month, calling them U.S. “lackeys” after the nations backed an amendment calling for a U.N. rights monitor to visit the island.
In other words, don’t criticize us for our actions, because that strengthens our foes.
Jeez, isn’t that just the logic that folks have been slammnig the “Don’t criticize the President” camp about?
(via Ad Orientem)