re: #108 HappyWarrior

Whose words are those? I’ve seen that quote before. That quote though does get at why I’ve seen many right wingers defending many fascist regimes especially ones like the Pinochet one. Sometimes, I think their only real beef with communist regimes is not the lack of human rights but rather the economics only. Frankly, this was and still is my big beef with many US foreign policy decisions during the Cold War whee being anti-communist meant more than having respect for human rights.

The writer is John Ralston Saul and the specific quote is from my favourite book by him, The Doubter’s Companion: A Dictionary of Aggressive Common Sense.

It’s a book I read whenever I feel the need to have my compass reset.