July 07, 2008

Che, FARC and idiotic leftists

Great editorial from our friends at Investors Business Daily about how the Colombian military used Che t-shirts as disguises to fool FARC rebels that they were brethren.

One of the most positive side effects of Colombia's rescue of 15 hostages from FARC communist terrorists was in dispelling the myth of revolutionary Che Guevara as a romantic hero.

Che, after all, was with the bad guys last week. The Colombian soldiers who freed the hostages wore Che T-shirts to convince the FARC they were fellow terrorists, and it actually worked. Within minutes, the hostages were handed over.

"They were wearing Che Guevara shirts, and I thought: It's the FARC!" said former hostage Ingrid Betancourt. Her disappointment turned to joy when the disguised men announced, "We are the Colombian army. You are free!"
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What's important now is that Betancourt may have taken down all the haloed glory of Che by telling the world about the T-shirts, making Che a detail too important to leave out of any Hollywood reenactment.

That will be a first step toward ending the myth that Che was some sort of hero.

In reality FARC is Che in action. No group has more right to claim the Guevara legacy than these jungle terrorists who actually have been at it since the days of Che.

Enjoy the rest of the excellent column.

UPDATE: Jose Reyes has a great cartoon about this posted at Cubanology.

Posted by Henry Louis Gomez at July 7, 2008 10:03 PM



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Did you catch WAR OF THE WORLD on PBS last night? On this particular episode they exposed Stalin as, gasp, as bad as Hitler! It also "exposed" the fact that Hitler and Stalin were allies at the beginning of the war, till ol Adolph stabbed Stalin in the back. Again, on PBS!
And who did che admire and name himself after? Why Stalin! che pledged on a picture of Stalin to bring communism to Latin America and signed his letters, Stalin II! And that's not from Humberto. That's the castro approved "che: a revolutionary life" by jon lee anderson.
Yes, this is a dark day for sean penn, tom morrello, benico, and the rest of the commies in Hollywood.

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