It would be difficult to find a better example of evil, or to use Hannah Arendt's term, the "banality of evil," than what U.S. officials have done to the Cuban people for the past six decades. After all, let's keep something important in mind: The Cuban people have never initiated force against the United States, and neither has their government. It has been the U.S. government that has always, without exception, been the aggressor against the Cuban people and the Cuban government. 

Consider the brutal economic embargo that U.S. officials have been enforcing against the Cuban people for all those 60-plus years. It is one of the most harshly enforced embargoes in U.S. history. Its purpose is to bring death and impoverishment to the Cuban people. The hope has always been that faced with death and impoverishment, the Cuban people would revolt against the communist regime in Cuba and replace it with another pro-U.S. puppet dictatorship, one just like the Batista regime that the communist revolution succeeded in ousting from power in 1959.

In the process, it has never mattered to U.S. officials how many Cuban people would die in such a revolution. What has always mattered is regaining U.S. dictatorial control over Cuba.

Consider the CIA's assassination plots against Cuban leader Fidel Castro. How can those be described in any way other than evil? Castro never committed any criminal act against the United States. His government never attacked the United States or even threatened to do so. He always made it clear that he just wanted Cuba to be left alone by U.S. officials. 

Nonetheless, the CIA targeted him with assassination, which is really just a form of legalized murder. Why shouldn't murder be considered evil, even when it is committed by officials who wear a U.S. flag on their sleeves?