I’m not an American so, inevitably, ‘left’ and ‘right’ mean quite different things to us anyway.I take both outlets with a grain of salt.
Perceiving the nature of the terrain, the opposition and its deployment does tend to be quite important in war.we’re engaged in a war with evil every day
Yes, you are correct, but the headline seems to indicate that we needed some evidence we were even in a war. A lot of Catholic commentators nowadays seem to always be pointing to such evidence, like their readership base is denying the presence of evil in the world. I realize it’s often just a rhetorical device to get all the “prayer warriors” riled up, but sometimes it feels like the umpteenth pointing out of the obvious.Perceiving the nature of the terrain, the opposition and its deployment does tend to be quite important in war.
Having more time to myself over the past few months, amongst other things, I’ve been reading quite a bit about the Spanish Civil war (I tend to the view the whole era in Spain was one where whenever people on all sides- there were several ‘sides’- could choose the worst possible option, they did so).A lot of Catholic commentators nowadays seem to always be pointing to such evidence, like their readership base is denying the presence of evil in the world.
On 10 September 1973 – the day before the coup that ended the Allende government – a Chilean military officer reported to a CIA officer that a coup was being planned and asked for US government assistance. He was told that the US Government would not provide any assistance because this was strictly an internal Chilean matter. The Station Officer also told him his request would be forwarded to Washington. CIA learned of the exact date of the coup shortly before it took place. During the attack on the Presidential Palace and its immediate aftermath, the Station’s activities were limited to providing intelligence and situation reports.[35]
US no coup involvement.The Church report also considered the allegation that the US government involved itself in the 1973 coup:
Was the United States DIRECTLY involved, covertly, in the 1973 coup in Chile? The Committee has found no evidence that it was.[36]
There is no hard evidence of direct U.S. assistance to the coup, despite frequent allegations of such aid. Rather the United States - by its previous actions during Track II, its existing general posture of opposition to Allende, and the nature of its contacts with the Chilean military- probably gave the impression that it would not look with disfavor on a military coup. And U.S. officials in the years before 1973 may not always have succeeded in walking the thin line between monitoring indigenous coup plotting and actually stimulating it.[36]
Castro killed at least as many Cubans as Pinochet did Chileans. Pinochet’s government has been justly condemned for engaging in some terrorist activities abroad, from Argentina to the United States. Amnesty International strongly supported the Chilean leader’s extradition to Spain in 1998 for a trial it thought would enact justice. But Castro trained thousands of guerrillas from countries all over the world and sent hundreds of thousands of Cuban troops to many countries on at least three continents to launch and wage wars that brought untold death and destruction. We can’t recall human rights organizations agitating for his extradition, or for his being brought to justice even posthumously in Cuba. Finally, Chile is the most successful case of economic, social, and political development in Latin America and a pioneer in the global shift to enlightened social capitalism. Cuba is a dismal, impoverished, dynastic totalitarian anachronism.
America may have a slight bias but it in NO way compares to ChurchMillitant.Articles in “America, the Jesuit Review” are likely to be just as biased in a leftwing direction as Church Militant is in a rightwing direction. I take both outlets with a grain of salt.
Also, we’re engaged in a war with evil every day whether someone is burning and vandalizing a church or not.
Not since the Fall, and as then, the choices we make will lead to consequences.Out of curiosity, has there ever been a moment in which the church wasn’t in a spiritual war with evil?
I will take “Stuff That Never Happened” for $500.My favourite thing about Pinochet is that his government kidnapped babies from poor families to sell them to wealthy western families. He was just a stooge of western capitalists, an absolute degenerate.
Dang right.“I’m tired of woke corporations cancelling people. We need paramilitaries to cancel people instead!”
I will take “Stuff That Never Happened” for $500.
That is how a lot of atrocities get out, and the use of the word “allegedly” does not invalidate it. You can play the role of negationist if you want though, that’s what I expect of your type.Even CNN has the honesty to use the word “allegedly” in the link to their hitpiece. No actual numbers, just personal anecdotes of dubious veracity.
I doubt every victim of Pinochet’s government was a communist.Not amorphous people, communists and their sympathizers. Knowing commies do when they take over, I find it hard to muster sympathy for them.
That’s interesting.Catholic revert, not that it matters.
I wasn’t “raised communist.”Were you raised communist or did you become one later?