Fidel & Cuba

[Joe Varo]

From: 	Greg Montalbano[SMTP:Greg.Montalbano at ucop.edu]

> All this discussion of noble revolutionaries & fascist, entrenched
> dictators brings to mind an interesting bit of CONVENTIONAL WISDOM, as
> represented in literature, movies, and the minds of the Great Unwashed
> (of which I am a charter member & past chapter president):  the fact
> that the noblest, most righteous revolutionaries, no matter how pure
> their motives, will, upon the achievement of their goal, sooner or later
> BECOME the evil power they displaced. 

Shakespeare probably said it best:  Power corrupts, absolute power
corrupts absolutely.

Joe