oh, I’m just a typical American boy from a typical American town,” sang Phil Ochs in the 1960s. “I believe in God and Senator Dodd and a-keepin’ old Castro down.”
The late folk singer was being facetious, of course. Like most of the counterculture, Ochs didn’t really believe in a-keepin’ old Castro down. But he would probably believe in today’s Senator Dodd, the son of the man he targeted in his protest anthems back in the day. Christopher Dodd is all about a-proppin’ old Castro up, along with many of the other left-wing rulers who have come to power in Latin America and the Caribbean. Dodd has built a career on attacking U.S. involvement in the Western Hemisphere, at least when there’s a Republican in the White House. Most recently, he’s been complaining about former Haitian president Jean-Bertrand Aristide’s unceremonious departure from power—and suggesting, without much evidence, that the Bush administration played a dark role in the ouster.
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