Elian 10 years later

In the wake of Elian's 16th birthday, now a part of the Young Communist Union, him in full regime garb, Castro named as a father figure, his mother apparently forgotten-- along with the reason of why she died, the following from the American Thinker says it best for this pathetic young man now being shamelessly used as a propaganda throwaway:

"If Elian had been granted asylum, today he would be a teenager preparing to go to college with every opportunity for success ahead of him. Instead, on the cusp of adulthood, Elian poses for propaganda photos sandwiched between Cuban army soldiers attending the Union of Young Communists congress in Havana...The youthful Gonzalez should have been wrapped in the America flag. Instead a boy who once represented the quest for the God given right to be free, waves a Cuban flag symbolizing poverty, oppression, authoritarianism and misinformation..."

God rest the soul of Elian's mother and God grant this boy wisdom before it is too late.