Pinochet, Part II
Even the Weekly Standard can't stomach the argument of the Harvard Salient's Ryan McCaffrey.
According to McCaffrey,
Pinochet successfully rescued Chile from the threat of violent communist revolution, and orchestrated one of the most dramatic economic turnarounds of the era—bringing a country from total economic chaos into immense prosperity.
Writes John Londregan in the Standard,
Pinochet and his apologists argue thus: "Castro and the far left are worse than Pinochet, they kill more people and deliver fewer benefits than did the military government of Chile." Are we to admire Pinochet because his murderous regime was more efficient than tyrants on the left at producing higher GDP?...