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Tuesday, November 13, 2007
I praise the Economist, the best magazine there is, but that does not mean that I don't have an aversion to their silly editorials: "Rather than a Christian romantic, Guevara was a ruthless and dogmatic Marxist, who stood not for liberation but for a new tyranny. In the Sierra Maestra, he shot those suspected of treachery; in victory, Mr Castro placed him in charge of the firing squads that executed “counter-revolutionaries”; as minister of industries, Guevara advocated expropriation down to the last farm and shop. His exhortation to guerrilla warfare, irrespective of political circumstance, lured thousands of idealistic Latin Americans to their deaths, helped to create brutal dictatorships and delayed the achievement of democracy." Are we not glad that he was not "a Christian Romantic". Was Jerry Falwell a "Christian romantic"?