One of the most interesting comparisons is the 9/11 discussion.
The first 9/11 was the 1973 bombing of the Chilean presidential palace killing the first democratically elected Marxist head of state: Salvador Allende.
In order to put things in perspective, here's what would have had to have happened to be the equivalent of what the US backed forces did in Chile:
Al Qaeda would have had to have:
The first 9/11 was the 1973 bombing of the Chilean presidential palace killing the first democratically elected Marxist head of state: Salvador Allende.
In order to put things in perspective, here's what would have had to have happened to be the equivalent of what the US backed forces did in Chile:
Al Qaeda would have had to have:
- bombed the white house
- killed the president
- instituted a military coup
- killed 50 to 100 thousand people
- tortured 700,000 people
- established a terror center in washington which instituted comparable coup elsewhere in the hemisphere.
- and murdered and assassinated people that they didn't like.
- brought in a bunch of economists who wrecked the economy
- and then went home to collect their nobel prizes and were greatly revered.
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