Protests and Right Wingers
/Serious question. Do people believe this stuff? The Wall Street Journal published an editorial in which the final paragraph said Egypt would be lucky to have an Augusto Pinochet.
“Egyptians would be lucky if their new ruling generals turn out to be in the mold of Chile’s Augusto Pinochet, who took power amid chaos but hired free-market reformers and midwifed a transition to democracy.”
Augusto Pinochet was a horrible dictator. His government murdered and tortured thousands of people. Read this article from the Washington Post for a summary.
Those facts are immaterial to the WSJ editorial boards. You know because Pinochet hired "free-market reformers" after the killing of a Marxist Salvador Allende (who was democratically elected).
