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> If I were Chilean I wouldn't be outraged.

I did some light reading on this topic. How exactly were a large number of people saved from death? Did you misspeak? Because from what I've read, the overthrow of Chile's elected government actually resulted in a large number of people dying/being tortured/'disappearing'. I'm guessing the Chileans who you spoke to weren't from that group.

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Thousands died, but if you compare the numbers against the numbers that died under communism in Cuba, Russia, China, East Germany and various countries in Africa it can be used as a convincing example of ends-justify-the-means foreign interventionism.

That's quite a leap you're making, from Allende to Gulags and famine.

You should stick to subjects you actually know something about.

Oooooh the magical attack de hominen.

No: I'm not saying you're wrong because you're a moron, I'm saying you're wrong and you're a moron.

It's not an ad hominem, it's an insult.

"In late August 1973, 100,000 Chilean women congregated at Plaza de la Constitución to vent their rage against the rising cost and increasing shortages of food, but they were dispersed with tear gas.[18]"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1973_Chilean_coup_d%C3%A9tat

People on all sides of the political spectrum were distraught. It wasn't as clear cut as "left versus right" or "poor versus rich".

What does that particular event have to do with American intervention? How did American intervention save anyone from death-by-tear-gas?

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