Creative Psy-Ops

Cuba's Communist party slammed the U.S. today for creating a post to "oversee a transition to democracy on the Caribbean island:"

(08-01) 19:33 PDT HAVANA, Cuba (AP) --

Cuba's Communist Party criticized the U.S. government Monday for creating a post to oversee a transition to democracy on the Caribbean island, accusing American officials of intruding in the country's domestic business.

President Bush "once again meddles in a rude manner in the internal affairs of Cuba by naming one of his men to publicly coordinate subversive actions against the island," the Granma newspaper said in a signed editorial.

Caleb McCarry, a veteran congressional staff expert on Latin America, was appointed last week to the new post aimed at preparing for a peaceful transition to democracy in Cuba.

The move was criticized by Cuban Foreign Minister Felipe Perez Roque on Friday and by Cuban Parliament speaker Ricardo Alarcon on Saturday.

The post of "transition coordinator" that is being filled by McCarry grew out of a 2004 report on Cuba prepared by a commission headed by then-Secretary of State Colin Powell.

The report outlined the steps that the United States was prepared to take to assist a democratic Cuba and to bring pressure to bear on Fidel Castro's government in the meantime.

This is brilliant! We need to do this for North Korea and Syria and probably a few other thugocracies, if for no other reason than to keep these thugs on the move every few hours. We should never allow them to feel at ease as if we tacitly approve of their dictates.

This tactic also serves to keep the appease and accommodate crowd apoplectic and aghast.

This move might be right up there with Ronald Reagan's "gaffe" into a live microphone that we were launching nukes on the Soviet Union.

Yes, this is surely a methodic tactical move on many levels. Heh heh