Real Clear Politics links "The Killing Machine," at
The New Republic, about Che Guevara, who's the focus of a wave of "radical chic" as Tom Wolfe so memorably put it over 30 years ago.
People in demonstrations in Lebanon, entertainers and other famous-but-not-necessarily-important people are showing up wearing "Che" shirts; and Alvaro Vargas Llosa asks why.
Why? (And I'll cut the political activists some slack, but...) Because they are idiots.
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