On Val’s Babalu blog, I wrote a long essay on the Posada Carriles case. It is a foreign policy issue, but now that Fidel Castro has made the claim that it’s a U.S. ‘credibility’ issue, there is a people-power dimension to it. People with access to mass communication would think so, and that is who Fidel Castro and Hugo Chavez seek to appeal to with this extradition demand directed at the U.S. Those elites among them hate us as intensely as they hate the purple fingers of our friends the Iraqi voters. They know we support revolution. Hence, their hollow claims about U.S. ‘credibility.’ That’s why Castro is calculating that whether or not the U.S. hands this accused terrorist over to face Venezuelan ‘justice,’ – either way – the extent of U.S. ‘hypocrisy’ will be revealed. And revolutions and all this dangerous talk about democracy will be done for once and for all.

For Castro and Chavez, it’s a no-lose proposition. As if this ridiculous group they are targetting didn’t already think this!Will the visa lines to the U.S. dry up if the U.S. suddenly loses its ‘credibility’? Oh spare me. Here is my take on Babalu here.

UPDATE: BEAUTIFUL HORIZONS’ Randy Paul notes that this case cannot be tried before the (UPDATE) International Criminal Court. It also can’t be tried here. It is going to have to be tried in Venezuela or Cuba. His perspective is a bit different from mine but it’s well written and he has some important details well worth reading.