LIKE WE'D BOTHER

"Fidel Castro accused President Bush of plotting with Miami exiles to kill him, and said he would die fighting if the United States ever invaded to oust him."

Actually Castro, who advocated using nuclear weapons against the U.S. during the missile crisis (see item #9 here), is the one world leader I'd support taking out. I know, healthcare education blah blah blah, but I don't think there should be a statute of limitaitons on someone who's made a sincere effort to have you incinerated. Since our covert units have not been up to the job, I suggest the tried-and-true tactic of dropping a safe on him from a stealth bomber.

Apparently Kruschev thought Castro was kind of a sissy with respect to internal affairs, and according to this Foreign Affairs piece, lectured him:

"The Soviet leader conducted what the authors evocatively describe as 'a seminar on ruthlessness.' A survivor of the hard school of Stalinism, Khrushchev cited Lenin's comment, 'If it becomes necessary to use terror to achieve important political goals, then it must be employed energetically and with celerity.' 'One must always keep in mind,' Khrushchev continued, 'that at the very first moment of any anti-governmental activity, one must crush it quickly, decisively, not stopping in the event it becomes necessary to open fire.' Not to be outdone, Castro boasted of his own mercilessness with domestic enemies of his regime. As a stilted translation reads, 'My revolution has also not shrunk from serious decisive measures if dictated by necessity. The proof of this was the shooting of military and political criminals, the arrests of many saboteurs and intelligence agents of foreign powers.' Such remarks might give pause to those who still view Castro as a romantic, misunderstood figure."