…wherein two of my favorite commenters on the planet (Mike Rowe and Bill Whittle) talk about this issue. What amuses me is that Rowe plays a little devil’s advocate up front, and Bill of course does his usual incisive rapier job.
Get yourself a cuppa, and settle back.
And a couple of the articles below this one will make a great deal of sense.
Love me some Mike Rowe, and love me some Bill Whittle (hello, fellow StratoLoungers!), but he made one glaring error: he said nobody ever fled to Cuba. Not true! Foul, cop-murdering fugitive Assata Shakur was given royal treatment by the Castros, and of course Lee Harvey Oswald tried to defect there once before he whacked Kennedy, and probably assumed that they’d give him asylum after.