I swear to God, using japmoticons should be the same thing as using a Nazi analogy: immediate forfeiture of the debate

I don’t have anything to say right now about September 11th, 2001. I’d rather keep to myself and observe in silence for today. Here are a few thoughts from others which I appreciated: Rememberance Looking back A day of mourning…

Citing a CNN story from five years ago and saying that I live under a rock doesn’t win you arguments. It is true, as the article notes, that the US made preparations to remove Allende in the case that it became a Soviet client state. As noted in the link above:

The CIA provided secret funding to Chilean opposition parties in the early 1970s to try to undermine Allende’s government.

This is not in dispute.

However, the idea that the US bankrolled a military coup and overthrew an elected leader is wrong, and ignorant of the domestic politics in Chile at the time. Read the Wikipedia article on the subject, or the specific section on the US role in the coup. Allende was nationalizing private industry, opposition parties and the church were calling on the military to intervene, and the government couldn’t handle the lawlessness that was overtaking the country because they were afraid to call on the police for fear that they were not loyal to the Socialist administration.

“9/11 — Thirty-Two Years On”
http://tinyurl.com/a449b
http://jakking.typepad.com/daily/2005/09/911_thirtytwo_y.html#comment-9321441