Cuba Was Never a Threat to "National Security" by Jacob G. Hornberger!
(2019-11-11 at 18:42:05 )

Cuba Was Never a Threat to "National Security" by Jacob G. Hornberger

Of all the ludicrous aspects of the Cold War, among the most ridiculous was the notion that Cuba posed a threat to United States "national security."

For some 30 years, the United States deep state (i.e., the Pentagon, the Central Intelligence Agency, and the National Security Agency) maintained that Cuba was a communist "dagger" pointed at Americas neck and, therefore, was a grave threat to "national security."

Through it all, hardly anyone ever asked a very simple but important question: What did they mean when they said that Cuba was a threat to "national security"?

Did they mean that the Cuban army was about to invade Florida, conquer the state, move up the Eastern Seaboard, and end up forcibly taking over the reins of the federal government, thereby enabling it to control the IRS and HUD?

If so, that is absolutely ridiculous. Cuba has always been an impoverished Third World country, one with a very small military force. Even if it could have scrounged up a few transport boats to get a few dozen troops to Miami, they would have been quickly smashed by well-armed private United States of American citizens. Anyone who really thinks that Cuba could have invaded and conquered the United States needs a serious dose of reality.

So, then what did they mean when they repeatedly told us that Cuba was a threat to "national security"?

Maybe they meant that Cuban leader Fidel Castro would export socialist ideas to the United States, where they would then infect the minds of the United States of American people.

If so, that is ridiculous because socialism was already taking over the minds of the United States of American people, and long before Fidel Castro took power in Cuba.

That is what President Franklin Roosevelts Social Security scheme was all about - bringing socialism to America. That was some 25 years before Castro came to power!

Let us not forget, after all, that Social Security did not originate with James Madison or Patrick Henry. It originated among German socialists near the end of the 1800s and then came to the United States in the 1930s. That is why the Social Security administration has a bust of Otto von Bismarck, the Iron Chancellor of Germany, prominently displayed on its website. Bismarck introduced Social Security to Germany. He got the idea from German socialists.

When President Lyndon Johnson enacted Medicare and Medicaid into law in the 1960s, it would be safe to say that he had not gotten the idea from Fidel Castro.

Socialism was gripping the minds of United States of Americans independently of what was happening in Cuba. The fact is that the entire world was moving toward socialism.

What about the Cuban Missile Crisis, when Mr. Castro invited the Soviet Union to install nuclear missiles in Cuba aimed at the United States?

They were defensive in nature. The Pentagon and the Central Intelligence Agency were pressuring President Kennedy to wage a war of aggression against Cuba, with the aim of installing another pro-United States dictator into power, such as Fulgencio Batista, the brutal and corrupt Cuban dictator who preceded Castro.

A prime example was Operation Northwoods, the false and fraudulent scheme that the Joint Chiefs of Staff unanimously presented to Kennedy after the Central Intelligence Agencys Bay of Pigs disaster, with the aim of securing regime change in Cuba. (To President Kennedys everlasting credit, he rejected it.)

To deter another United States attack or to defend against such an attack, Mr. Castro sought assistance from the Soviets.

If the Pentagon and the Central Intelligence Agency had not been pressuring President Kennedy to attack Cuba, Fidel Castro would never have invited the Soviets to install those missiles. This was confirmed by the fact that once President Kennedy promised that he would not permit the deep state to attack Cuba again, the Soviets took their missiles home.

Today, 30 years after the end of the Cold War, the United States deep state steadfastly maintains that Cuba continues to pose a threat to United States "national security."

That is what the decades-old economic embargo that targets the Cuban populace with impoverishment and death is all about.

But the fact is that Cuba has never posed a threat to United States "national security," whatever definition one puts on that nebulous, meaningless term.

The truth is that it has always been the United States government that has posed a threat to Cuban "national security," as manifested by such illegal and wrongful actions as the CIA invasion at the Bay of Pigs, the decades-long cruel and brutal economic embargo against the Cuban people, the false and fraudulent Operation Northwoods, state-sponsored assassinations attempts against Fidel Castro, and acts of terrorism and sabotage within Cuba.

The truth is that the entire decades-long anti-Cuba campaign has always been nothing more than a fear-mongering racket by the United States deep state, one designed to assure ever-increasing budgets and power for the Pentagon, the Central Intelligence Agency, and the National Security Agency.

Reprinted here with permission from Mr. Jacob G. Hornberger of The Future of Freedom Foundation!! Their Great Website!!