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Originally posted by Tyrone Slothrop
That's a nifty trick -- all the bad stuff Pinochet did was utterly unforeseeable, but all the bad stuff Allende might have done was utterly predictable. And it was necessary to overthrow the democratically elected government to make sure that eventually, after the junta finished torturing people, democracy might return.
eta: Here's a nifty thing about democracy: When the government is accountable to the people, it tends not to torture them so much.
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Allende had already asked for soviet assistance, was clamping down on the press for criticising him and had declared a state of emergency because of all the riots over the economic mess. It was pretty clear where things were headed. You would have to be blind to see where it was heading. We had the choice of a Sociality dictatorship or a military junta, and the military junta clearly turned out to be the right choice. Are you saying Pinochet's record is worse than Castro's. If I had a choice between a Castro and a Pinochet, or even the chance of a Castro, I would pick Pinochert any day.
