Please hold me up to an entirely different standard

Here is a link to a good article on Che Guevara. The more liberal folk among us like the article but think it focuses too much on some of Che's "faults" that might be considered "mild" compared to the faults of other leaders and their policies (e.g. United States foreign policy, USSR, etc.). The conservatives among us (yes, there are a few) are just glad that the "son of a bitch is dead."

excerpts:

The day after his capture, bedraggled and exhausted, Che was trussed up and taken to a thatched school house in La Higuera, where he was shot four times by a Bolivian volunteer called Mario Teran, who lives in hiding to this day. Che was 39. His last words were, 'I know you have come to kill me. Shoot, coward, you are only going to kill a man.'

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During the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962 Che was more bullish even than Castro or Khrushchev, seemingly unconcerned that the whole world was holding its breath over the outcome. 'The worst thing I heard about him,' says Hitchens, 'is that he was in favour of launching the missiles. That, for me, is a contradiction too far. You can't be a great revolutionary who wants to free the world and be a guy who wants to push the button. You can only be one or the other.'

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