Everything gets all of us eventually, Castro included. Don't gloat over other people's aging problems, that's my advice. It can come back to haunt you in time.

Abe Lincoln was an interesting fellow, Old Guy. I'm not sure whether or not he would be remembered as a great president if he had not served during the Civil War period. Sometimes men have greatness thrust upon them by extraordinary outer circumstances. Still, he did lead the Union very resolutely, and he came up with some powerful ideas.

No, he was most definitely NOT a neo-con, because he himself warned that the US government already in his day was in great danger of being taken over by powerful vested commercial/financial interests...and that if so, it would destroy American democracy.

His predictions in that regard have come true.