DEAD. GOOD.

Ms. Kirkpatrick was an architect of Reagan Administration foreign policy. Her distinction between "moderately" repressive "authoritarian" regimes and allegedly incorrigible "totalitarian" regimes served as the official rationalization for US aid to horrendously repressive regimes in El Salvador, Guatemala, and elsewhere, as well as the "secret" war against the Sandinista government of Nicaragua. Following Kirkpatrick's lead, the US government turned a blind eye to massive human rights violations by merely "authoritarian" regimes in Central America, willfully ignoring such atrocities as the massacre of over one thousand men, women and children by US-trained Salvadoran troops in the village of El Mozote in 1981. In order to recognize the Ambassador's words and deeds, and to take public notice of their consequences, we are not altogether pleased and proud to designate Ambassador Kirkpatrick as recipient of the Pinochet Award...http://tinyurl.com/y84oc7 [Open in new window]
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