[lbo-talk] Cuban HDI

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No, no, no. The problem is that we don't see the truth as Leo sees it -- Democrats aside Nathan's a different story. Castro's repression is wrong, and I'll say it now or at any time. I'll also say that I'm not sure what other choice Castro has, a point I have pressed on you repeatedly, and you have failed to address. Do you disagree with my assessment of what would happen if the Cubans were to open their political process to US-funded opposition? Do you think that would be a fair and democratic result? Do you think taht the price of the destruction of the graet benefits as well as the crimes of the Cuban revolution would be worth the cost in terms of having a one time not very fair election and campaign? You do not deign to see that these are questions that have to be addressed. But the petition pretends taht none of that is political reality. That's not the truth. It's mere ideology -- the truth "unversted as ina  camer obscura." I don't justify therepression. But the Cubans appear to me to face a genuinely tragic choice. Do you disagree? jks

Bradford DeLong <delong at econ.Berkeley.EDU> wrote:Seems to me that nobody is saying that Nathan and Leo are wrong about 
Castro's latest despicable actions. All people are saying is that it 
isn't politic to mention them.

Be very, very careful: the world is full of people who are trying to 
communicate the truth as they see it. If you're not even trying to 
communicate the truth as you see it--if you're shading what you 
communicate in the interests of being politic--you go straight to the 
bottom of lots of people's to-be-read piles...

Brad DeLong
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