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...Argentina's "Dirty...
Your articles on the arrest of Argentina's former military leaders [Jan. 23] are not evenhanded. The left-wing terrorists, not the generals,started the dirty war. As a cousin of mine who is among the disappeared ones told me the last time we met, "The old order has to be destroyed to build a more just one." His politics led to acts as despicable as those used by the military. Because the generals won that war, we have democracy today in Argentina...
...from year to year, reaching the same unimaginative decision about obliterating their impediments. The idea has simplicity to recommend it. "Nothing will come of nothing," King Lear told one of his daughters. He was wrong, of course. Everything comes of nothing in King Lear, as it tends to elsewhere, Argentina included. Technically the desaparecidos are nothing; the conscience and resolve of the new administration are nothing. Because of such nothings, former President Bignone is in prison this week...
...basis of those nothings does Alfonsin hope to make his nation reappear. Working toward nothing, the former leaders got rid of most left-wing terrorism in Argentina, but in terms of a stable government or a content citizenry, they achieved nothing. Perhaps they are most comfortable in the presence of nothing. Perhaps their wish from the start was to survey a wasteland from atop a reviewing stand, exquisitely alone in a world where everyone else has disappeared...
...protest, or did they think that their husbands and children might actually be recognized, and returned to them safely? Do they think that still? They had nothing to hope for, they walked in a circle, and they said nothing, by which they restored much that had gone away from Argentina. -By Roger Rosenblatt