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Politics : Stop the War! -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: zonder who wrote (13252)	4/14/2003 10:36:48 AM
From: Hawkmoon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 21614

If you do not know that the US government at the time proactively supported Pinochet and literally put him to power, then I do not have much to say to you on this subject. Uh.. hello? By saying we wouldn't stop it, doesn't mean we "officially" endorsed a coup. We certainly didn't do so publically. But did Kissinger desire a coup? There is little doubt about that.. Did the CIA provide funding for demonstrations and sponsoring strikes? Sure. All Kissinger cared about was making sure that Latin America was "stable" while he concentrated on the real confrontations between the US and USSR in other parts of the world. Kissinger really didn't care about Chile.. But that's NO DIFFERENT than the activities which the Soviets and Cubans were FAMOUS for engaging in (BUT which people like you seem to willfully wish to discount or completely ignore). The Soviets were JUST AS ACTIVE in supporting the UP's even more radical attempts to force Allende to move farther to the left, to move more rapidly to socialization and central command of the means of production. Allende's base of support within the UP was becoming uncontrollable and bordering on the verge of outright civil war. And just because the CIA was funding something we perceived was in our own political interest (keeping Chile from going communist), doesn't mean the Chilean army had to comply... THEY OVERTHREW ALLENDE.. not the US. And while the US administration at the time might have approved of the coup, there's little doubt that Castro and the USSR approved of their minority party being able to use the Chilean political system to destabilize that country. So when you cite CIA complicity for the Chilean coup, please don't forget to omit the complicity of Cuba and the USSR, who advocated REVOLUTION. And while you're "researching" the history of the Chilean coup, you might focus on the fact that Pinochet banned ALL political parties, marxist and capitalist... All of them. He wiped the slate clean and with his "chicago boys" set about to reshape the Chilean economy to where it enjoys it's current prosperity. All Allende would have led Chile to was economic and political ruin. Hawk