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http://www.crimesofwar.org/special/condor.htmlThanks for the link - I will read it later.
>From our perspective, I think we probably were looking at the lesser of 2 evils: communism vs. military dictatorships. I hope our behavior is improving with the collapse of the Soviet Union.
Yes, that was more or less my understanding: that the dictatorship was considered, at that time, to be the lesser evil.
Difference in opinions hath cost many millions of lives: for instance, whether flesh be bread, or bread be flesh; whether whistling be a vice or a virtue; whether it be better to kiss a post, or throw it into the fire... (from Gulliver's Travels)