re: #460 Cato the Elder

As opposed to pro-Americally letting our dear friend Pinochet off the hook? That would be a sign of true friendship.

Pinochet’s treatment demonstrates the craven hypocrisy of the international community. These links claim Castro has 20x the victims of Pinochet, though Pinochet has plenty (3200 murdered, about 10x that tortured.) We’re in lesser-of-2-evils territory here, but here’s 2 sharp, rational, whargarbl-free, and short articles that got me up to speed on the Pinochet thing that I found during the earthquake.

Reason magazine is brilliant and generally iconoclastic.
This from National Review is also nuanced and interesting. Bonus points - Buckley was still around in ‘06, so it was just better all around then.

less bloggy more worky for me now.