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Hey, Leozinho and rubberneck:
You two seem to have very strong opinions on this subject.
Neither of you appear to be old enough to have lived as an adult through the period we are discussing, nor does your age indicate that you have served in Latin America, much less Chile during Pinochet's rule.
Since you have such strong opinions, have you ever lived in Chile or has a close family member who did?
I am curious as to where your opinions come from, and why you are so emotional about an event outside the US in a relatively minor country.
Incidentally, if we could find a strong former military leader to take over Iraq tomorrow for a 12 year term who would be pro-US and could guarantee pacification of the nation within a few days, but he would have to disappear 3,000 people to do it, would it be worth it or not?
TR
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"It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat." - President Theodore Roosevelt, 1910
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