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Fidel Castro: US bound to fail in Afghanistan

AUGUST 25, 2009 22:22

Cuba's Fidel Castro on Tuesday criticized US President Barack Obama's stepped-up war in Afghanistan, while backing Obama's effort to provide health care coverage for all Americans. The former Cuban president said in an essay published Tuesday that he hasn't the slightest doubt that "the racist right" will do anything to stop Obama from succeeding domestically. Castro's remarks appeared on the Cubadebate Web site, which publishes his frequent essays on global affairs. He formally stepped down as Cuba's president in February 2008 after ceding power to his brother Raul. "The strategy of withdrawing troops from Iraq and sending them to the war in Afghanistan to fight the Taliban is a mistake. The Soviet Union sank there," wrote Castro, who was a close ally of the Soviets at the time. "The United States' European allies are more and more unwilling to spilling the blood of their soldiers in that country."

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