I half agree with you, but I think those countries need to take some responsibility for their own activities. It's not just Americans running around killing people there. The Muslims that live in those countries are doing a fair amount of killing of their own. Could we stop that? Probably not, though the US military could leave those countries and let them fight it out themselves. The killing would still continue, but it might be less.

The fact is Cuba's dead are not largely on American hands. Yes, the US gov't meddled. Castro did most of that killing himself or through surrogates, or by allowing Che Guevara to fulfill his fantasies of shooting people in the head with impunity. How do I know that? I know a few Cubans in exile who lived through Castro's reign of terror. Castro may not have started as an evil man, but he became an evil man as he went along. And, yes, rather than honoring that monster, we should be acknowledging the people who he killed.