Therefore, the Left never forgave him.
Posted on 10/27/2018 8:45:03 AM PDT by DIRTYSECRET
Most are left-leaning, blaming the US for thousands of deaths. As I understand it he SAVED the country. I remember a Buchanan quote on McGlocklin: "Those that were killed should have been killed." Mean-but true? It's got me thinking. SO tell me which one is evenhanded and credits the man for Chile's success today.
Jiminy Cricket let Pinocchio down.
Don’t know about any books. He stopped the communist takeover of Chile dead in its tracke and secured freedom in the country for a couple of generations.
Therefore, the Left never forgave him.
Pinochet saved Chile. It is the most free and most prosperous country in the southern hemisphere. He is the only dictator ever to voluntarily step down once his work was done.
Similarly, Fujimori saved Peru. Whatever his defects, he stepped up when all was lost, and turned the tide of battle at a time when the central government had lost complete control of the country outside Lima, and the guerrillas were advancing into Lima. No one else was prepared to do what he did.
Once it was safe for a return to normal governance, lesser men stepped up to accuse him, and he was driven into exile and later into prison. But Peru is what it is today thanks to him.
And ditto for Franco. (and please, no lame Chevy Chase jokes).
Some 1500 libs got a one way plane trip and Chile did not become Venezuela. China decided to end opiate addiction by making it a capital crime. They only had to execute about 500 to shut opium down.
I’m looking for similarities the left is going to try to paint Trump with. Hitler won’t work. They will settle for Pinochet without the deaths but that won’t stop them. Something tells me in an ideal world you wouldn’t need a Pinochet but without them the whole world would go to hell in a hand basket. Is Trump Caesar? Could be. Pinochet is another example of the times producing such leaders.
A Democrat acquaintance of mine recently visited Spain. He was shocked to find good respectable people defending Franco. Americans have trouble understanding what the war was really about. The older ones picture “For Whom the Bell Tolls” and the younger ones just know lame Chevy Chase jokes. And the really young ones don’t even know that.
If you’ve read Orwell’s “Homage to Catalonia” its not such a mystery. But history is taught, when its taught at all, in the most cartoonish way.
I didn't realize Pat ever mentioned him.
I was going to say, Chile and Peru are all there is of sensibility in SA.
Let is tally the spreadsheet:
Liberal ****hole
Free prosperity and trade with strong laws
Column B please
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oeWm7QxXLPE
-—and in the voting that removed Gen. Pinochet from office, he received a higher percentage of votes than Allende’ did when he (Allende’) assumed the presidency-—
https://www.hoover.org/research/what-pinochet-did-chile
A starting point. My guess is balanced analysis of Pinochet will come from contemporaries at the Hoover Institution and U Chicago. Both were involved in righting the economy down there.
Did Pinochet and Fujimori follow the example of Cincinnatus?
Yeah, really when you think about it he’s a lot like George Washington. And everyone who murdered was almost certainly guilty of something. That’s why he didn’t even hide what he was doing. Father of his country.
We’ll shoot, now I’m having a hard time finding that link. I know I heard somewhere that George Washington just sneaked around and mass murdered a few thousand political opponents and journalists who wrote Tory opinion pieces. Then he had them sailed out into the Atlantic and threw them off in the ocean to drown. I’ll post it if I can find it. It must be somewhere.
There is a book called IIRC “What REALLY happened on September 10, 1973” but I believe it is only in Spanish. It was a newspaper book, meaning that you bought the newspaper and they gave you a cheaply printed book. Usually it was some sort of classic novel or a school requirement book.
The best is “Out of the Ashes - Life, death, and transfiguration of democracy in Chile 1833-1988” by James
Whelan.
Out of print, exceptionally difficult to find. Got mine on e-bay five years ago for almost $300. Big book, 1000+ pages. Heavily annotated, primary sources.
Google the author.
Will lend to a responsible individual.
bttt
Agreed!
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