Do any Argentine protestors read USA Today?

(Welcome visitors from Michelle Malkin and Mudville Gazette open post.)

Michelle Malkin has photos of the Argentine protests of President Bush’s visit. One shows protestors carrying a huge banner with the image of far-Left hero and terrorist Che Guevara superimposed on a quilt-like background of flags of South and Central American countries.

In a recent USA Today op-ed, Ryan Clancy reminded us:

Che demanded worldwide revolution, even if it meant a stream of death and misery. He said the utopia that could be built on the ashes of the old world would make the suffering worthwhile. That's why he advocated a nuclear exchange during the Cuban missile crisis.

In fact, if you read through Che's speeches, with his constant refrain of glorious martyrdom, they're remarkably similar to another well-known "revolutionary" — the tall, bearded one holed up somewhere on the Afghanistan-Pakistan border.

Che hated the United States and the global free market system that sustained it. Just ask him. "Let us sum up our hopes for victory: total destruction of imperialism by eliminating its firmest bulwark, the oppression exercised by the United States of America."

If Che's world vision had prevailed, it's safe to say that Apple founder Steve Jobs would have never brought us the iPod. After all, it's tough to innovate when you're stuck behind a donkey farming turnips for the proletariat.

USA Today is distributed worldwide. Didn't any of the Leftists in Argentina read Clancy's op-ed?

Or maybe the problem is that when your other heros are Stalin, Fidel, Mao, and Kim Il Jong, you won't believe anything bad someone says about Che.