Posted on 06/29/2002 7:53:40 AM PDT by Corazon
ERNESTO CHE GUEVARA (PAGE IN SPANISH)
Humberto Fontova Tuesday, June 25, 2002 Mike Tyson used to end fights with his arms upraised in triumph. Then he got a Che Guevara tattoo. Now he ends fights on the ground, a bloodied mess, battered and bowed, pounded almost beyond recognition. Lewis didnt just defeat him, he stomped him. It was a hideous thing to watch, even if you loathe Mike Tyson. Tyson was jinxed by that Che tattoo. Theres no other explanation. Somebody should have enlightened mighty Mike about the real Che Guevara. Che was hell on smiting his enemies, all right thousands of them - but only when they were bound, gagged and blindfolded. Im afraid the Boxing Federation doesnt allow that. In anything like a fair fight Che was consistently routed, stomped and humiliated. Ineptitude in combat defined Che Guevara. In every conflict he was pounded like a gong. When he whimpered to his American-trained captors in Bolivia, "Dont shoot! Im Che. Im worth to you more live than dead! he had a point. We blew it by not kidnaping him from the Bolivians in time and using him like Luddendorff used Lenin in WWI. Recall that the Germans shipped Lenin through their lines into Russia "like a sealed bacillus (in Churchills phrase) to infect the Russian army, to demoralize and incapacitate it, thereby shutting down the Eastern front. It worked like a charm. The mighty Che, air-dropped into Vietnams Central Highlands with bundles of his "Lessons in Guerilla War in October 1968, would have crippled the V.C. worse than 10 operation Rolling Thunders. |
Fantasy? I doubt it. I read it closer to the time I was an active duty specops officer, and I belived it all. I mean, it's historical record: he recruited officers and soldiers, trained them, got vehicles and moved his troops in columns and rescued the missionaries and aid workers all across Congo and killed countless terrorist "simbas".
The mainstream media never liked to bring it up though, because the CIA and mercenaries were VERY effective, while the UN and European govts were mainly impotent dolts.
Very comparable to the experience of the South African mercenary company "Executive Outcomes" in Sierra Leone in the mid 1990s: the globalists HATE it when private mercenary outfits are so effective. The UN and the RSA had EO thrown out of SL, and SL slipped back into horror. IOW, the UN prefers globalist (non) "control" and resultant horror to private military success, in the Congo in 65 or SL in 95.
That distaste is reflected in the elite media's treatment. The "fantasy" comment you spoke of very likely came from a leftist Che worshipper who could not believe that a bunch of mercs whipped Che's commie butt out of Africa.
As he had done during the Cuban revolution, El Che carried a US M2 carbine during his efforts in Bolivia. It had been hit by rifle fire when the US trained and led Bolivian Rangers opened up on him, and the *professional guerrillo* had lost the magazine to the spare handgun he carried....
But the real secret in the victory of the American 8th Special Forces Group and those who ran Guevera into the ground has never fully been told. I wonder if it's true, as has been said, that Guevera had turned to the Bolivian coca to help cope with his asthma and altitude sickness and was a wasted and wrecked cocaine addict when he was killed. He looks it.
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