The U.S. Government & Salvador Allende: Aren't They Actually The Same Thing?

Here's another worthwhile bit from the post-mortem love bath the Washington Post gave Pinochet:

For some he was the epitome of an evil dictator. That was partly because he helped to overthrow, with U.S. support, an elected president considered saintly by the international left: socialist Salvador Allende, whose responsibility for creating the conditions for the 1973 coup is usually overlooked.

"Created the conditions" for the coup? Huh...where have I heard that exact same language before? Oh, yeah:

Declassified transcript of Nixon-Kissinger phone call

September 16, 1973 KISSINGER: The Chilean thing is getting consolidated and of course the newspapers are bleeding because a pro-Communist government has been overthrown.

NIXON: Isn't that something. Isn't that something.

KISSINGER: I mean instead of celebrating ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢â€šÂ¬Ã¢â‚¬Å“ in the Eisenhower period we would be heroes.

NIXON: Well we didn't ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢â€šÂ¬Ã¢â‚¬Å“ as you know ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢â€šÂ¬Ã¢â‚¬Å“ our hand doesn't show on this one though.

KISSINGER: We didn't do it. I mean we helped them. ______ created the conditions as great as possible.

NIXON: That is right.

So according to the Washington Post, Allende was responsible for "creating the conditions" for the coup. According to Kissinger, it was the U.S. government which "created the conditions." But these seemingly contradictory statements can be reconciled when you realize the U.S. government and Salvador Allende are in fact the same thing.