Che was neither saint nor Satan- he was the person his times and place- Latin America, at the worst of the U.S. dominated, essentially fascist 1950s and early 1960s, an era when democracy didn't exist south of the U.S. border- gave him little choice but to be.

Perhaps this was what JFK, with his many limitations, contradictions and hypocrisies, recognized when he made his famous observation- an observation he was fulfilling even while offering- that "those who make peaceful revolution impossible make violent revolution inevitable".

JFK died before he could make the changes in U.S. foreign policy that observation should have pushed him and others to make- the best way we could honor both of them would be to make those changes now, ourselves.