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A '''"friendly dictator"''' from the American point of view is one who is [[authoritarian]] but not [[totalitarian]].

A '''"friendly dictator"''' from the American point of view is one who is [[authoritarian]] but not [[totalitarian]].

Up until the 1970s, friendly dictators included the [[Shah of Iran]], [[Anastasio Somoza Debayle|President Somoza]] of [[Nicaragua]], [[President Pinochet]] of [[Chile]], [[President]] [[Saddam Hussein]] of [[Iraq]], [[President Marcos]] of the [[Philippines]] and [[Efraín Ríos Montt|President Efraín Ríos Montt]] of [[Guatemala]].<ref>[https://www.pbs.org/newshour/debatingourdestiny/84debates/2prez4.html The Second 1984 Presidential Debate]</ref>  [[President Franklin Roosevelt]] famously said of Anastasio Somoza, "He may be an SOB, but he's our SOB."<ref>{{cite book|first=Roxanne|last=Dunbar-Ortiz|year=2005|url=http://www.southendpress.org/2005/items/7417/Prologue|title=Blood on the Border|at=Prologue|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061001222704/http://www.southendpress.org/2005/items/7417/Prologue |archive-date=1 October 2006 }}</ref>  In debates over American foreign policy, liberals and conservatives differed over whether it was better to withdraw support for their regimes (on [[human rights]] grounds) or to support them as the [[lesser of two evils]].

Up until the early 1970s, friendly dictators included the [[Shah of Iran]], [[Anastasio Somoza Debayle|President Somoza]] of [[Nicaragua]], [[President Pinochet]] of [[Chile]], [[President]] [[Saddam Hussein]] of [[Iraq]], [[President Marcos]] of the [[Philippines]] and [[Efraín Ríos Montt|President Efraín Ríos Montt]] of [[Guatemala]].<ref>[https://www.pbs.org/newshour/debatingourdestiny/84debates/2prez4.html The Second 1984 Presidential Debate]</ref>  [[President Franklin Roosevelt]] famously said of Anastasio Somoza, "He may be an SOB, but he's our SOB."<ref>{{cite book|first=Roxanne|last=Dunbar-Ortiz|year=2005|url=http://www.southendpress.org/2005/items/7417/Prologue|title=Blood on the Border|at=Prologue|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061001222704/http://www.southendpress.org/2005/items/7417/Prologue |archive-date=1 October 2006 }}</ref>  In debates over American foreign policy, liberals and conservatives differed over whether it was better to withdraw support for their regimes (on [[human rights]] grounds) or to support them as the [[lesser of two evils]].

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[[Category:Dictators]]

[[Category:Dictators]]