Never said I agreed with the methods used in the Argentinian coup or even the Chilean coup (where a group of us journalists were chosen to meet with the new Chilean ambassador to the US, Mr. Heitmann. When he asked us, mainly conservative writers, what we would suggest the new government do, we unanimously said, “Stop the killings and torture”. He understood that we were against what was happening and despite him being new to national diplomacy, I’m sure he delivered our messages back to Pinochet.
If you are installing a fascist dictatorship, to prevent a socialist dictatorship, you do nothing good.
Stopping the killings is good. Did anyone suggest to hold an election?
And if you are conversant with that, you also know it was not merely combatants and terrorists that were rounded up and killed.
There were tons of labor union organizer types, professor and teacher types, writers, and other such. No excuses for that. If it was VC or Jihadi types, I get it. But they were killing political opponents. That just no good. George Washington never rounded up and murdered people he knew had tory sympathies..
And again, Obama did what he did to hurt America, but this was nothing America should be proud of what the CIA did down there.