I was very happy when the US told Marcos to pack. And I'm fine when the alternative to Pinochet is someone like Allende, to support Pinochet. Frankly he yields less misery.
After all, the locals are responsible for their governments no matter what we do, they could in theory pick neither Allende or Pinochet.
They could always read Locke, and start getting it right.
Instead, we have to pick between Pinochet, or Allende, that's the choice you keep on giving the world. That, of course, and whether we'll keep on buying your bonds when you nationalize our property at the drop of a hat, or every other election, whichever crime you chose.
But you should feel in good company, not too many here have read Locke anyway.
Even in America, Rousseau and his Endarkenment are winning over the Enlightenment.
"You're no better than he was. "
You really don't get it, Makepeace is better than Lucas is, and he's better than you are. He's no totalitarian, he's not in it for the money or a political career later on, he's not in it to satisfy revenge fantasies against people who have nothing to do with trauma other people caused.
He's using the tools he has to try to understand and contain a self-evidently lethal--to the universe at that mind you--threat to the nation he's sworn to protect. Threatening a 14 yo is pretty small potatoes compared to the idiocy, stupidity and death Jon has already unleashed with the stone.
You think Jon has a right to the stone? You can write it that Makepeace is somehow a bad guy, and you can write that the US has no right to safeguard itself from other nations which promise to destroy it (or politicians in those nations dedicated to an ideology which says the same), but you can't make yourself not sound like an idiot when you do it.
