Hold your sniggering, please. One of the most (willfully) misunderstood political movements has one impressive attribute which I think rubbishes the premature obituaries currently being written on it: its ability to evolve. Who'd have thought that neoconservatives, the same mugged-by-reality intellectuals who gave us "Dictatorships and Double Standards," would manage to keep their powder dry and their morals in tact upon the death of South America's most notorious right-wing strongman? Here is John Londregan on Pinochet in the Weekly Standard:
His embrace of economic reform seems unlikely to have sprung from a commitment to freedom, given the overarching contempt for liberty that characterized the rest of his government. Rather, in order to insulate himself from the consequences of his murderous seizure of power, Pinochet sought out political allies, and his free market reforms helped him to garner support domestically on the right, and also among members of the international community. One must be careful not to fall into Pinochet's trap–accepting his brutal seizure of power and tyrannical rule as a natural accompaniment of free market reforms. Propagandists on the left lost no time in seeking to discredit economic freedom by associating it with Pinochet. To this day, we hear from Moscow that it takes a Pinochet to implement economic reforms successfully; Vladimir Putin seems all too willing to have Pinochet's uniform taken in a few sizes so he can try it on.
Shall we embrace, then, Bashar al-Assad for the purpose of rescuing Iraq? Not unless we're prepared to remember roving death squads in Damascus; the annexation of Lebanon; a spate of political assassinations unrivaled in arrogance and megalomania; and cynical pragmatism tricked out as "statecraft" when it comes time to write his obituary.
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