This shouldn't come as a surprise.
Many will remember McGovern as the U.S. Congressman whose name was all-over the hard drive of Raul Reyes, the commander of the Colombian narco-terrorist group, FARC.
And not in a good way.
As the Wall Street Journal wrote at the time, "Mr. McGovern has been working with an American go-between, who has been offering the rebels help in undermining Colombia's elected and popular government."
McGovern led the opposition to the U.S.-Colombia Free Trade Agreement. His opposition was almost exclusively based on human rights considerations.
So surely his Cuba oped expressed concern over the continuous human rights violations of the Castro regime?
Not once.
Instead, he writes the "differences" between the U.S. and Cuba are simply that:
"We don’t agree about economic freedoms, or about how elections should be conducted; we don’t agree about the Middle East, Iran or any number of other foreign policy issues."
Forget the fact that Castro is the sole remaining dictator in the Western Hemisphere; that his regime beats, imprisons and tortures democracy advocates, independent journalists and labor activists on a daily basis; and that it violates essentially every fundamental human, civil and political right recognized under international law.
McGovern believes that such behavior merits "respectful dialogue" -- but only in the case of left-wing dictators, of course.
