TC_Triple3
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Anyone who helps a foreign communist slave state take over his country is a traitor who deserves to die.
Pinochet is a hero.
I wouldn't call him a "hero" because he was, after all, a dictator. but as dictators go, Pinochet IS an interesting case study. General Pinochet deserves to be remembered for having rescued his country from becoming the second Soviet satellite in the Western hemisphere, though he is mostly remembered for the death or disappearance of over 3,000 Chilean citizens and the alleged torture of thousands more.
Is is no doubt true that some of those who were tortured or killed were innocent, but many or most were preparing to inflict a far greater number of deaths and a vastly larger scale of suffering on their fellow citizens. This was a war against a Communist takeover. In the process, those defending their property and liberty cannot be expected to make the distinctions present in a judicial process. They must act quickly and decisively to remove what threatens them. That is the nature of war.
General Pinochet was undoubtedly no angel. No soldier can be. But he certainly was also no devil. He did impose major pro-free-market reforms, and used his power to set limits on economic policy debates with frequent warnings that he would not tolerate a return to statist measures. The effect of these reforms was to make Chile the most prosperous and rapidly progressing economy in Latin America.
In the end, dictatorship, like war, is always an evil, but Pinochet's is quite different than most. He was certainly no Mao, or Stalin.