Needed facts about the execrable assassin Che Guevara

 

The Argentine assassin Che Guevara, whose image is running a close race with Mao Tse Tung as the most capitalized of any anti-capitalist in history, has enjoyed a posthumous popularity that is inversely proportional to his competence in life. Guevara's "foco theory" of guerrilla warfare lasted about as long as he and his "peasant" revolutionary regiment lasted in the jungles of Bolivia. 

 

Today, the eponymous "Che" as he is modernly known, graces the walls of reluctant terrorists and dime store revolutionaries throughout the world, from Obama campaign volunteers to Palestinian terror apologists like Hatem Abudayyeh, a Chicago radical whose office was shown to be adorned with a Che poster in what was otherwise an innocuous 2004 PBS documentary on immigrants in America.

 

Still, the Che myth lives on. And thousands of guileless college students continue to sport his image on sweat shop T-shirts, all the while clueless to the history behind the ubiquitous face that could be interchangeable with the mugs of a Hitler or even a Timothy McVeigh - with only body counts to mark the differences in their intentions and accomplishments. 

 

The above video may begin to place some much needed personal context to the true evil that lurked in the mind of this "revolutionary" turned pop icon. 

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