The more things change …
Meanwhile, Time magazine celebrates the murdering coward Che and how he didn’t let asthma slow him down.
Latson led her article, titled “How Che Guevara Didn’t Let Asthma Affect His Ambitions,” with her “even greater threat to his revolutionary ambitions” line about the leftist’s asthma, and noted that “asthma was a constant threat from his earliest youth.” She continued with an account of the physical abuse that Guevara’s father inflicted on his “tiny and sickly” son when he was a child, which “instead of toughening him up…left him with a persistent cough and severe asthma.”
Greetings:
Several months back, I read “Ché Guevara: A Revolutionary Life” by Jon Lee Anderson and can recommend it as balanced and lengthy. I found his resolution in Bolivia surprisingly unmoving, as an unthoughtful person might say about a rape victim, “He wanted it.”. What I found most interesting was his excursion to the Congo and his abject failure to stoke those mostly tribal flames into Sociolismo flames. For the obvious reasons, an adventure not often mentioned.
Oh, did I forget to mention his nutty bourgeois parenting ???
A few years earlier, in Europe, Dr. Ernesto Lynch might have been Mengele’s right-hand man.
Pity his asthma wasn’t worse. Imagine how much better the world might be if he’d grown up to be a bed-ridden neurasthenic weakling.
I don’t know, a Godless communist terrorist…with asthma? That’s quite a challenge. He at least deserves a participation trophy and sainthood in the Godless communist community. Or maybe disappeared ‘cuz commies hate asthma, hard to know…
One thing though, it suggests even murderous, raping, nasty pigs wth no redeeming virtues whatsoever can function with asthma.
For what it’s worth.
Damn…you’re eloquent, Lee.