http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/6170021.stm
It struck me with great force today, as the harpies and fops of the left in this country screech and caterwaul about Augusto Pinochet- vastly greater evil was perpetrated in many places and by many people in the 20th Century, but nobody so successfully broke the back of a Communist takeover. And thats what they hate. At the cost of 3,000 lives, Chile was saved from the fate of Vietnam, Cambodia, China, Russia, Ethiopia and on and on and on.
For the 3,000 and their families, this was a tragedy and a disaster. For everyone else in Chile, it was the best result possible. I don't want to suggest that the murder and torture of people is easily justified- it isn't. But if the Bolshevik revolution in Russia had been suppressed at the cost of 3,000 lives, would that have been a better outcome than what happened? 8 million kulaks murdered, 25 million Russians of every class, occupation and political view murdered, millions of Ukrainian peasants starved to death, untold damage done to other nations as a direct result of copying the Russian 'revolution'? If 3,000 people in Cambodia had died and Pol Pot never made it to power, would that be terrible? Less terrible than what actually happened, certainly. I could go on.
For the polytechnic lecturers and the local authority Stalinists, Salvador Allende was the apotheosis of lefty pizazz and style. He was sauve, handsome and communist. How could you top that? Pinochet was an uptight, organised Army man with very little personal charisma and a profound Burkean understanding of why communism was evil and dangerous. Here, in microcosm, was the worlds dilemma in the 20th century. Do you follow the siren song of the commies to societal disintegration, murder, poverty and oppression? Or the boring, farty conservatives to the nirvana of freedom, wealth and democratic ordeliness?
Well, for the lefties in Britain it was never in doubt! Lead us on to death and oblivion please.
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