Che Guevara was a murderous thug and the kids that walk around wearing his shirts are morons!

No, thank you for participating. I believe it's important for us to discuss this in an intellectual honest fashion. Quite frankly, I believe you are falling into a logical fallacy trap that goes something like this: "If I was bad, therefore B must be good." That's not how things work in real life, especially with regard to the Castro's regime. Look, Batista was a dictator that had to be disposed, that isn't even debated. The question before us deals with whether Castro and Che's style of revolution was ultimately healthy for Cuba and I think the answer is clearly no for several reasons. The first of which is that your comparisons are historically inaccurate and a little off. While Batista was certainly a dictator, the country was not a militarized state (that's just flat out false) and the vast majority of Cuban people weren't living terrible lives as the main stream media would want you to believe. Cuba had one of the highest literacy rates in the western hemisphere and was the third largest consumer of meat, on a per capita basis, in the hemisphere as well. Again, Batista was a power-hungry dictator and ran a state where the police would abuse the Cuban people. The only thing that the Cuban and American revolutions have in common is the "revolution" word attached to them - that's it. The American revolution was a declared war fought between two nations, between soldiers. Castro's revolution relied on killing innocent civilians and setting off bombs in Havana. Yes, they did kill soldiers, which in a time of war is justifiable, but tens of thousands of innocent civilians were killed as well. The American revolution established democracy, civil liberties and Washington was an elected president. The Cuban revolution established a dictatorship, rights were taken away, dissenters were executed and Castro appointed himself as Cuba's ruler without ever holding a free election. Let's not forget that Che collaborated in all of those things that I've just mentioned, executed many innocent people himself, including women and children, and the revolution betrayed the Cuban people. They promised free elections within a year....never happened. Castro guaranteed that revolutionary would ever ascend to the presidency of Cuba...false. Che and Fidel promised more civil rights...for more than 45 years, any party in Cuba other than the communist party is illegal and punishable by a prison sentence. Internet access is illegal. Cubans cannot enjoy their own beaches because there is an apartheid in place. Not to mention, the regime has executed tens of thousands of innocent civilians. You get what I mean? You can't justify Castro's morally indefensible rule by sayin that Batista was bad, too. No, BOTH are bad. Your last paragraph about Che shirts being capitalistic doesn't change anything. That's like me walking around with an Osama Bin Laden shirt saying that it's cool for me to wear it because by virtue of me purchasing it in a free-market I am going against Islamic terrorism. Also, you can't separate the "murderous thug" from the "revolutionary fighter." They're one and the same people. Hitler also saw himself as the liberator of Europe, that doesn't erase the atrocities he committed. Why give Che a free pass?