Castro: Another Flawed RevolutionaryTommi Avicolli-Meccabyline‚ Feb. 21‚ 2008It’s hard to know what to say about Fidel Castro’s resignation after almost 50 years as president of Cuba. I have mixed feelings about the ailing revolutionary who, along with Ernesto “Che” Guevara and others, seized control of the island nation in 1959 and declared it a Socialist country. I grew up during the Cold War. How well I remember the Bay of Pigs and the Cuban Missile Crisis. Those were scary times. Our nation always seemed poised on the brink of war. In school we went through regular air raid drills during which we were taught to duck under our desks, as if that would protect us from nuclear bombs. It got so overwhelming that I tensed up every time an airplane flew overhead. |