throwawayAsdFoo

>Pinochet was the best of two horrible options

And on a scale from 0 to Cuba, how bad was Allende exactly?

(Rhetorical question, im not interested in your answer.)

The iraq war was based on lies and financial interest. Do you really want to pretend, Saddam was the primary goal? And that nation building was accomplished, sir!

And gaddafi was toppled over french/sarcozy interest.

One who doesn't know history is doomed to repeat it. Post hoc justification of own atrocities is exactly the sort of cognitive failure that patriotic delusion (and thus the future of such) can cause.

100% correct. Democracies cannot fail, even if they turn into fascism through legal quirks. People in democracies fail.

The guy you responded to is a perfect example of how democracies can fail not just by the lack of education but trust too. And in the end, the decades long power shift from the public to the private sector costs us the only system of governance where ground-up revolutions can be peacefully by design.

> Solidarity and diversity are opposing forces.

This sentence is close to brain cancer. Diversity means accepting others amongst yours despite your differences, it's the essence of solidarity.