Great letter Mr. Baitsholts; the examination you are attempting to reveal to potential critical thinkers is a community service.  To examine Castro's legacy critically is to acknowledge that the Cold War was only good for the industrial complex that President Eisenhower warned us about.  America does indeed need to look at our legacy overseas; an excellent place to start is how Saddam Hussein was our good buddy in Iraq, just ask Don Rumsfeld, because he was in opposition to Iran.  Pinochet was our good buddy in Chile.  While the US does a lot of good in the world, we are fooling ourselves to suggest that we haven't had some epic screw ups.  It will take us decades to deal with Abu Ghraib torture and prisoner abuse.  Let the people and nations who are without fault cast the first stone.