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There was a putsch in Chile on 1973-09-11 (or was it 1974).
When you're on the side of the ones who kicked out president Allende, you call that freeing the nation from a threat.
Those who took the power were not citizens of the USA. They had proved themselves and so on. They got what they wanted with Henry Kissinger's helping hand, but they already had the capacity of assuming power.
Helping the inside "resistance" (in this case the resistance to a socialist president) is the way to help another nation.
The USSR did it.
The USA did it.
They trained Ben Laden during some conflict in the gulf area.
What I meant is that a regime can only exist when the people know their leader has achieved something in his life before becoming the head of the nation. You can't propel anyone on the front stage and expect everything to be all right just cause you'd like to, the way Bush did.
I believe that Cantankerous and others don't see what good George Walker did before becoming president (the guy quit drinking though) and that's why the USA appears as a nation freaking out. And powerful people freaking out are not the best guests you'd expect.
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