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Contrary to the list of dictators you read, and despite
the histrionics of the very well-known leftist Ariel [Dorfman],
Pinochet is actually a tragic hero of our times; a man who
took communist chaos, despair and violation of private
property, and restored the country into modernity. That the
cleanup was bloody, no question. I myself was unfairly arrested.
But times of crisis demand such sweeping actions,
just like our own President Lincoln did. We weren't to
selective when bombing Germany in World War II. For
Pinochet, they were in a war, too.