U.S. Using Terrorism? Nothing New Here...

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Why is it important to remember the U.S. involvement in the overthrow of Allende and the placement of a torturer, Pinochet, in power in Chile?

For one thing, the key architect of using terror to dislodge democratically elected regimes, notably Chile, is Henry Kissinger. He is still, according to news reports, a key advisor to George W. Bush and Cheney.

Central to Kissinger's Machiavellian assertion of U.S. power for the sake of dominance alone is the use of terror. Yes, that is not some sort of radical, far left assertion. It is fact.

Take this excerpt from a cable during the Kissinger orchestration of the overthrow (and "suiciding") of Allende, as included in a New Yorker review of this book written a few years back: "For Chileans, September 11th marks a different tragedy -- the anniversary of the 1973 coup that overthrew the democratically elected government of Salvador Allende.

This timely book weaves together thirty years of declassified documents with a gripping narrative of America's involvement in the affair. At a National Security Council meeting in 1970, Secretary of Defense Melvin Laird said of Allende, "We want to do everything we can to hurt him and bring him down," and a C.I.A. memo from the same year describes efforts of a key ally "to increase the level of terrorism in Santiago."

This terrorism included the assassination of René Schneider, the constitutionalist commander-in-chief of Chile's armed forces, which was carried out with C.I.A.-provided funds and submachine guns. The evidence that Kornbluh has gathered is overwhelming."

In short, the use of terrorism to overthrow a Democratically-elected regime in Chile was unofficial U.S. policy. And once Pinochet was installed, with Kissinger's blessing, a reign of terror was visited upon the people of Chile.

This is the reality: the U.S. replaced a Democratically-elected government with military terrorists.That, again, is just the fact, not some wild theorizing.

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