re: #70 SanFranciscoZionist

I am withholding downdinging, although that is my first impulse, because I know you and have seen you examine and change your thought processes.

The U.S. chose to support a murderer, a torturer, and a fascist in Pinochet. We chose, as we always did in Latin America in those days, to choose the murderer over the Commie. A Communist who committed the crimes of Pinochet would be rightly condemned as a monster, and his crimes attributed to the innate inhumanity of Communism. Let’s not let the Fascist off the hook.

We screwed up.

This underlines exactly what I’ve been trying to say but better put. We let our anti-Communism get in the way of being pro-Democracy in Chile I believe. As I said, if you replace Allende with someone who isn’t a Fascist monster like Pinochet then I doubt this is as controversial as it is today.