Horowitz vs. the Hitch

One from the Vaults.

Interesting stuff.

  I especially like this:

This was the famous coup of September 11, 1973 which overthrew the elected government and brought to power the aforementioned Pinochet junta. It was as Hitchens has written a ruthless and cold-hearted military regime, but no more ruthless or cold-hearted (and probably a lot less) than the “dictatorship of the proletariat,” instituted by Allende’s friend and hero in Cuba.

Not to be misunderstood, this does not make Pinochet’s crimes ok. The murder of innocents is never justified whether the crimes are committed by the left or the right. On the other hand, there is not a conservative known to me who has denied in print that Pinochet killed a lot of innocent people or who has argued that these deaths were either justified or necessary. It would probably take a leftist to make that kind of case.

Correct.