NYT: Castro Pushed for Soviets to Nuke the US

Meredith Jessup discovered this New York Times story buried in the Science section. It makes sense they felt the need to bury it. They wouldn’t want to make people like Oliver Stone, Sean Penn and California Rep. Diane Watson look bad, now would they? The knowlege that these left wing idiots support a man who begged the Soviets to hit American with nukes won’t sit well with most Americans.

The National Security Archive, a private research group at George Washington University, recently made public documents that reveal the nuclear threat in new detail. …

The Pentagon study attributes the Cuba revelation to Andrian A. Danilevich, a Soviet general staff officer from 1964 to ’90 and director of the staff officers who wrote the Soviet Union’s final reference guide on strategic and nuclear planning.

In the early 1980s, the study quotes him as saying that Mr. Castro “pressed hard for a tougher Soviet line against the U.S. up to and including possible nuclear strikes.”

The general staff, General Danilevich continued, “had to actively disabuse him of this view by spelling out the ecological consequences for Cuba of a Soviet strike against the U.S.”

That information, the general concluded, “changed Castro’s positions considerably.”

Yes, America, Fidel Castro (who just praised Barack Obama) wanted to detonate nuclear weapons on American cities. At the time a young Barack Obama was fretting about nuclear proliferation.

Barack Obama, then an undergraduate at Columbia University, worried about the nuclear threat and later wrote as a student and a journalist about ways to avoid global annihilation.

Is the president as naive today as he was back then? It’s starting to look that way. He seems to believe that disarming nations not run by crazy despots will somehow keep the crazy despots from aquiring nuclear weapons.

In the depths of the cold war, in 1983, a senior at Columbia University wrote in a campus newsmagazine, Sundial, about the vision of “a nuclear free world.” He railed against discussions of “first- versus second-strike capabilities” that “suit the military-industrial interests” with their “billion-dollar erector sets,” and agitated for the elimination of global arsenals holding tens of thousands of deadly warheads.

The student was Barack Obama, and he was clearly trying to sort out his thoughts. In the conclusion, he denounced “the twisted logic of which we are a part today” and praised student efforts to realize “the possibility of a decent world.” But his article, “Breaking the War Mentality,” which only recently has been rediscovered, said little about how to achieve the utopian dream.

Twenty-six years later, the author, in his new job as president of the United States, has begun pushing for new global rules, treaties and alliances that he insists can establish a nuclear-free world.

Does he realize how close he came to being blown up by the communist hero of his friends? It seems he sorted out his thoughts well enough to give speeches about disarmanent. But he doesn’t seem to have given up his vision of achieving that utopian dream.