Aging Castro Plays National Security Advisor to America's Critics

While our own president and his administration chose to remain quiet during almost all of the Libyan protests, giving little in direction other than to give the usual diplomatic language of strongly condemning government violence, Fidel Castro, on the other hand, believes he knows exactly what the US will do.

With his usual revolutionary zeal, the Island Dictator admonishes that America policy makers care very little about peace or liberty in Libya (or the Middle East for that matter) and instead only want stability for oil production.

In his latest “Reflections,” Fidel Castro outlines the importance of oil and what he argues is the long-standing aim of the US to control supplies.

“What is for me absolutely evident is that the government of the United States is not worried at all about peace in Libya,” he writes.

Instead, Washington will not hesitate to order a Nato invasion of the oil-rich North African country, in “a matter of hours or a few days”.

Those statements were delivered with good timing now that Qaddafi is entertaining sabotaging his oil facilities, along with the fact price of oil has been climbing steadily, and on the heels of President Obama’s first public comments.

Well of course Castro’s comments have a ring of truth to them but not in the way he of course means it. While it is true America manages to consume 25 percent of the world’s oil production, while making up only 5 percent of the world’s total population, it also produces over 25 percent of the world’s output. Contrary to popular belief, especially during campaign season, America still produces and presides over a potent and ever expanding manufacturing market. In fact, we have the most productive workers on the planet, the strongest economy, the most powerful military, and the most advanced space program. In America, each worker produces over $180,000 annually in manufactured goods. Our American workforce and productivity continues to tick upwards despite losing over 7 million jobs since 1970.

We do this through capital and human investment and at a fraction of the labor force China employs by the way. (Regarding that last remark, here is the approximate GDP- Purchasing Power Parity for the top two economies in the world: The US: $13,860,000,000,000; China: $7,043,000,000,000.)

So you bet we care about the world’s oil production and market because the world depends on the US’ goods and services and benevolence. And certainly oil is tied to our foreign policy as it is vital to our national interests, which is to say for greater global security and increased trade.

Maybe Fidel would be better served by continuing to suck on sour grapes picked from his collective vineyards. Meanwhile, he can do some more”reflecting” over what went wrong on his stagnant, irrelevant communist island since he murdered his way to power and wrecked the lives of all Cubans. That offers plenty for the anachronistic dictator to reflect upon. The US, on the other hand, will continue to make history.