Try this...
If you don't want to be considered anti-American, it would help if at some point, sometime in your adult existence, you should have taken your own nation's side on something.
Especially when those on the other side are radical Islamist terrorists, totalitarian Marxists, or any of the others who have declared eternal war on America and its values.
William Blum:
...if one further considers education and health care -- both of which are guaranteed by the United Nations' "Universal Declaration of Human Rights" and the "European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms" -- areas in which Cuba has consistently ranked at or near the top in Latin America, then it would appear that during the near-40 years of its revolution, Cuba has enjoyed one of the very best human-rights records in all of Latin America.
Slam dunk. I can predict the positions of these people down to micrometer level. There is no monster walking the face of the Earth that cannot redeem himself in the eyes of this kind of leftist by simply setting themselves in oppostion to the U.S. and the West.
He was also instrumental in aiding Philip Agee in exposing hundreds of CIA agents, which, I suspect, will make absolutely no impression on those who wanted the leaker of Valerie Plame's name hung from a tree.