In article ,
"Franck" wrote:

Call it as you want, 3000 people killed in this country by Pinochet
governement with support of US governement

ok genocide wasn't the good word but the fact are your country help this
dictator ( september 11st ..1973) and the result was a great democratie
isn't it ?

It was during the Cold War, and when you have a choice between a
horrible guy on your side versus a horrible guy on the other guy's side,
you have to make some ugly choices... and we did. But no worse (and
usually better) than some of the other "free" countries around the world
at the time. Like the Shah of Iran, who was a nasty *******, but
certainly better than what replaced him. Or just about anyone in South
America.

Luckily, most of the Socialist and Communist countries have collapsed,
and the ones that are left are slowly starting to transition to
capitalism. We're starting to get a wider choice in what we consider
"allies" now, instead of settling for whoever happened to want to trade
with us.

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