Reply #23: Well...

[kiki]

A lot of those who ran from Cuba were people who felt they "weren't free to make money". And Operation Northwoods spells out the US government's plans to blow up a couple'a boatloads of those patriotic souls for the sake of a "new Pearl Harbour".

The Cuban revolution wasn't about communism or capitalism, it was about Cuban nationalism: Cuba ruled by Cubans, for better or worse. Fidel's regime hasn't worked out too well - I'd like to see you run a country with the entire world striving to see you fail - but when the revolution was actually happening, those "Geuvara supporting flakes" made up the majority of the country.

Or perhaps you think a "tiny handful of extremists" somehow managed to seize control of the entire country, just like a "tiny handful of extremists" are resisting the occupation of Iraq right now...