[D Rider]

Pinochet was a patriot. Willingly gave back power once the situation was stabilized.

[robowombat]

In reality the situation was not stabilized. The commies were just laying low waiting for their opportunity. Pinochet should have picked a successor general and thoroughly trained him to follow in his footsteps while making sure the entire GO/FO base was absolutely reliable. The process would have required 50-75 years , so at the end of it no one who was alive when Allende was enabling a communist revolution would be left. If the situation requires the same medicine here I can only pray that the appropriate practitioners will arise to force the purgative through the political system and put people and processes in place that will keep the left crushed for decades.