Only in Ithaca would the local paper dredge up a thirty year old coup, compare it to the attacks our nation suffered and use it to attack U.S. foreign policy on September 11.
Posted on 09/11/2003 4:58:30 AM PDT by Behind Liberal Lines
Painful memories that are attached to the date of Sept. 11 are not limited to the year 2001.
Thirty years ago today, on Sept. 11, 1973, Chile's elected president, Salvador Allende, was overthrown in a coup by Augusto Pinochet, a Chilean general whose subsequent 17-year dictatorial regime is best remembered for its ongoing human rights abuses. It is widely held that the Pinochet coup was strongly backed and even planned by the U.S. intelligence community, which was eager to be rid of Allende because of his Marxist background.
Regime changes are nothing new in world history or in U.S. history for that matter. Few would mourn the demise of the Allende regime and, more recently, Saddam Hussein's dictatorship in Iraq. Yet both events should inspire some healthy introspection over the consequences of one nation interfering in the leadership of another.
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Only in Ithaca would the local paper dredge up a thirty year old coup, compare it to the attacks our nation suffered and use it to attack U.S. foreign policy on September 11.
I'm surprised the local paper didn't mention that and argue that his life of violence on the gridiron shortened his life. ;-)
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