This excerpt is good:
Two years later, during his Bolivian “guerrilla” campaign, Che split his forces, whereupon they got hopelessly lost and bumbled around, half-starved, half-clothed and half-shod, without any contact with each other for six months before being wiped out. They didn’t even have World War II vintage walkie-talkies to communicate and seemed incapable of applying a compass reading to a map. They spent much of the time walking in circles and were usually within a mile of each other. During this blundering, they often engaged in ferocious firefights against each other.
“You hate to laugh at anything associated with Che, who murdered so many,” says Rodriguez, the Cuban- American CIA officer who played a key role in tracking Guevara down in Bolivia. “But when it comes to Che as ‘guerrilla,’ you simply can’t help but guffaw.”
IMO the greatest stain on JFK was his handling of the Bay of Pigs. Other than that he is probably—cancel—definitely the best Democratic president in my life. 100x better than the figure head Alzheimer’s riddled old man we have now.
Although to be fair all I remember is what I’ve read of him as I was a toddler when he was shot.
On Che..never did understand why those indoctrinated children of yuppies in the early 2000s all wore his image. To be honest I don’t think they did either.
Typical anti-American John Kerry:
“I have nothing to hide,” Rodriguez said repeatedly. “I’m not ashamed of anything I’ve done. I’ve battled communism since I was 17. I help the Contras, the Salvadoran government. I do so as a volunteer, legally and openly. And if you’re sincere, senator,” he finished up. “You’ll put out a statement to the press about what I said here today. I insist that the American people know about my testimony!”
No such statement was ever issued from Kerry’s Committee. So two months later, Rodriguez called a press conference in Miami to tell his side.
A full year after leaking the slanders against Rodriguez and after the treacherous, lying swine who made them failed three polygraph tests, The Kerry Committee finally saw fit to allow Rodriguez’a year-long request for an open hearing. They scheduled him as the fifth witness at 5 in the afternoon when the Senate chamber was devoid of reporters and TV cameras. In the near-empty room, Kerry finally mumbled a half-hearted apology.
And the Nicaraguan Sandinista, Daniel Ortega, was allied at the time with Libya’s Qadaffi and with Columbian terrorist group FARC, giving them control of at least 75 percent of the world’s cocaine.
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