Thank you, Jay

Jay Nordlinger of National Review weighs in on the controversy:

Many readers have asked me to comment on the 15 Cubans who were recently sent back to Castro. Fleeing on a small, homemade boat, they reached a bridge in the Florida Keys. Only it wasn't really a bridge: It was an "abandoned bridge piling," as the AP account put it. [ . . . ] Under America's "wet foot, dry foot" policy, the Cubans were sent back — because they had not succeeded in reaching U.S. land.

To me, the most poignant paragraph in the AP story was this: "The Cubans thought they were safe . . . when they reached the Old Seven Mile Bridge. But the historic bridge, which runs side by side with a newer bridge, is missing several chunks, and the Cubans had the misfortune of reaching pilings from a section that no longer touches land."

Well, readers have asked me to comment on this forcible return of 15 wretches to a vicious police state, where their punishment will be horrendous. I think you know what I think already: It's disgusting and damnable and immoral, and Americans ought to be ashamed of it. If the Left hadn't prettified the "Castro revolution" for the last 45 years, opinion leaders would be more sensitive to what Cuba is, and so would our country at large. [My emphasis]

Disgusting, damnable and immoral indeed.

Posted by George Moneo at January 17, 2006 01:51 PM

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Posted by: A.M. Mora y Leon at January 17, 2006 01:59 PM