And the Hi, I'm Bill Crystal.

Welcome to Conversations and to a special conversation with my friend and our frequent guest,

Elie Abrams on Fied Elkh Fidel Castro who was talking here on Wednesday.

He died on late Friday night I guess early Saturday morning and there's a huge amount written

about it.

Some of the best stuff written by you but so let's talk about Castro's death and

your reaction to your reaction to the reactions to that and then talk about Castro himself.

Well the the reactions to the death, as you know, were a series of Ancomia from people like the Prime Minister of Canada, very famously, which led to a great deal of derision, rightly of him.

Ban Ki-moon at the UN, I mean heads of state all over,

John Kerry, to a lesser extent,

to Barack Obama.

And they, you know, it was sort of as if a normal head of state had died,

as if a normal president had died,

which was very striking because he was a vicious and ruthless and murderous dictator.

And all of these people

who will miss him so much and everything he achieved,

particularly the health and welfare,

these are all lies.

So what really struck me about it was the degree

to which people were unwilling to face up

to his true record.

Somebody on the right who had done the things he had, who had done a tenth of the things he had done, would be viewed as a monster.

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