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To: CitadelArmyJag

But if you look at the context of the instability that Chile was in, did it really warrant tactics such as death squads and disappearances of people?


283 posted on 12/10/2006 1:39:07 PM PST by RightCenter
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To: RightCenter
But if you look at the context of the instability that Chile was in, did it really warrant tactics such as death squads and disappearances of people?

Pinochet had to chose the lesser of two evils,given the choise of takeover by a vicious totalitarian philosophy or the methods he used,which was worse ? look at how many people were slaughtered by che and castro?

Churchill is said stated , "in the wars for modern democracy there is no room for chivalry

294 posted on 12/10/2006 2:08:20 PM PST by Charlespg (Peace= When we trod the ruins of Mecca and Medina under our infidel boots.)
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