[B-Chan]

I don't blame Gens. Framco or Pinochet for anything they did. Indeed, I consider them both to be heroes who saved their respective nations. The duty of the military is to defend the nation from all enemies, foreign and domestic; and the Stalinist monsters of revolutionary Spain were, like Allende and his gang of Fidelist thugs, most definitely the enemies of their nation.

If the people of the United States were ever to elect a tyrant, I would expect our military to do its duty and remove him/her from power.

[csvset]

Can you recommend a good book regarding the Spanish Civil War?

[curmudgeonII]

I don't blame Gens. Framco or Pinochet for anything they did. Indeed, I consider them both to be heroes...

Franco can only be regarded as a hero by comparing him with the alternative - a Communist government. Franco, evaluated by himself, was a cold-hearted butcher,and a follower of Mussolini and Hitler