That's why I posted the two quotes...communism is a fucked up enough system, we didn't need to sabotage it.
By sabotage, I meant making sure financial aid stopped flowing in to the country, which I have no problem with.
Quote: But apparently this certainty didn't exist in your minds, as much as you believe in capitalism, so instead of waiting for the next elections you helped send the country into a dictatorship without thinking of the horrifying consequences, or perhaps simply ignoring them.
It wasn't the fear of communism succeeding financially, it was the concern that we would have another Communist country posing a security threat to us, like Cuba.
Quote: How can a democracy, any kind of democracy, be worse than a DICTATORSHIP? Can you even grasp the concept of what a dictatorship implies? I assure you you wouldn't view this matter so lightly if your country had been through one, like most of southamerica did thanks your little interventions.
As I stated before, I have no qualms with the politcal and economic pressure that was applied. I do disagree with overthrowing a government that was elected, and supporting a dictatorship, in this case.
We currently do deal with some unsavory governments now of out of sheer necessity, but they didn't replace elected governments, which made Chile unique.
Quote: About the economy... you say you didn't need to sabotage it. Then why the fuck did you do it? Part of the declassified CIA documents detail how, from the very beginning of the communist goverment, you helped the unhappy companies organize to intetionally damage the economy, and even went as far as to spark violence in demonstrations to help create civil unrest.
Economic pressure was used to get the government out. I don't think we had to do a whole lot with organizing companies...the government was nationalizing businesses, which put a lot of fear into other countries. The Marxist government's policies did plenty to piss off people and cause unrest.
Quote: This wasn't Cuba. This was still a democratic society that would have reverted to socialism (or possibly elected a right wing goverment, since the leftist one failed) in about a year. If we maneged to survive for four years of democratic communism with you pulling the strings to make everything go wrong, we would have survived one more year to reach the new elections.
You give us way too much blame. We sped up the fall of the marxist government, but they were pretty apt at destroying themselves.
