Comments on: Romanticizing Ché Guevara

By: anjin-san

anjin-san — Fri, 05 May 2006 18:34:24 +0000

Guess Icallem has forgotten how many brutal dictators we climbed in bed with in name of fighting the cold war. Or how Saddam was Rumsfeld's boy when it suited our needs.

I guess actually reading history books is just too darned hard for him

By: ICallMasICM

ICallMasICM — Fri, 05 May 2006 14:51:27 +0000

Lefties are against brutal dictatorships now? No doubt accounting for their overwhelming support for deposing Saddam, fighting the Cold War, defeating the North Vietnamese..............

By: James Joyner

James Joyner — Fri, 05 May 2006 14:12:45 +0000

Jack: Sure. But he was "fighting" against a democratically elected government in one of the freest societies in world history. Guevara was fighting against two brutal regimes.

By: ICallMasICM

ICallMasICM — Fri, 05 May 2006 13:59:15 +0000

If you overlook the murder of hundreds of people including kids in a day care then Tim McVeigh was an innovative man of action with a populist anti-government message.

By: Steven Taylor

Steven Taylor — Fri, 05 May 2006 02:12:12 +0000

Spencer:

Quite true.

By: spencer

spencer — Thu, 04 May 2006 21:55:31 +0000

the saqme can be said about many of the people who get all upset about them.

By: Andy Vance

Andy Vance — Thu, 04 May 2006 20:59:00 +0000

Of course, most people ~~wearing~~ reading ~~ChÃ© shirts~~ Christopher Hitchens are only vaguely aware of any of the backstory.