I have been suprised that very few people have brought up Allende and Chile; I guess nobody wants to imply he/she is in favor of a military coup or predict that RFK Stadium will be filled with bodybags soon.
Pinochet was able to accomplish successfully in Chile - with the loss of a mere 1500 lives, what JFK & LBJ were unable to accomplish in Vietnam at a loss of well over a million lives - 60,000 of which were young American boys.
Allende was preparing for a Communist coup to put down popular dissent. Pinochet was a military man and found out that the Allende Communists were getting shipments of Soviet weapons and those weapons were on ships in Valparaiso Harbor.
Pinochet struck first.
Allende killed himself, as he was gracefully given free passage to any nation that would take him in exile by the valiant Generalissimo Pinochet.
Two things guaranteed-CNN will not have abody counter 24/7 in the upper right corner of their site,and there will not be cameras at the casket drops on the docks.