It has been an astonishing few days since Fidel Castro died.  Of course, the Cubans of Miami and elsewhere in America are elated, celebratory.  The man who took over their island nation in 1959 and turned it into a gulag has finally died.  Under his dictatorial rule, he murdered thousands of his own citizens for opposing his communist policies, imprisoned thousands of others, tortured them, starved them, killed them by firing squads, and put them on rafts out to sea when his prisons became too full.  The man was one of the most horrific, barbaric dictators on the planet.  That his crimes were limited to a small island nation does not make his inhumanity any less vile.  He survived because, for inexplicable reasons, he became the darling of the left –  the American left, the Central and South American left, and the global left.  From the beginning of his "revolution," leftists around the world loved this enemy of freedom and...(Read Full Post)