Jon Pizzo Posted November 20, 2007 Report Share Posted November 20, 2007 First, read this: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071119/ap_on_.../iran_venezuela Did anyone else see this coming? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fletch Posted November 20, 2007 Report Share Posted November 20, 2007 Chavez is a menace, and he seems to be getting a major pass from the media. The left, of course, love him, while the right seem to be unable to mount any sustained criticism of him. With $100 per barrel oil to prop him up, Chavez has the chance to make his brand of socialism appealing to the vulnerable states around him. He could become Castro...with a bank account. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jon Pizzo Posted November 20, 2007 Author Report Share Posted November 20, 2007 Chavez is a menace, and he seems to be getting a major pass from the media. The left, of course, love him, while the right seem to be unable to mount any sustained criticism of him. With $100 per barrel oil to prop him up, Chavez has the chance to make his brand of socialism appealing to the vulnerable states around him. He could become Castro...with a bank account. Yes, and the left love him because he embodies the true end to their proposed virtue: the public good. As for the right, they can't mount any sustained criticism of him because they are sanctioning the virtues he embodies simply by negotiating with those virtues: that of sacrifice and the public good. They can call him a tyrant, but they can't completely criticize him because his code does not completely differ from theirs. So yes, I agree with you. As for the vulnerable states around him, I would hope that people could see his system for what it truly is: a system set up to fail inevitably. However, history proves that people in these mostly uneducated places will fall for his Utilitarian tactics of the most good for the most people. Now that he has allied himself with a madman, I don't see how this could end without the use of force against these two regimes. They have openly threatened to destroy the U.S, at least economically, by force. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheEgoist Posted November 20, 2007 Report Share Posted November 20, 2007 This should come as no surprise to anyone who keeps up with current events. These guys have had a proposed alliance for quite sometime. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
O.K. Stone Posted November 20, 2007 Report Share Posted November 20, 2007 Birds of a feather flock together. They always do. The content of their minds makes them approach one another. Their nationality or origin is of secondary importance. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jon Pizzo Posted November 20, 2007 Author Report Share Posted November 20, 2007 I knew as soon as Chavez announced his policies that he would try to gather the other dictators of the world to his aid. Frankly, I am not surprised at the behavior of Iran's 'president' either. Normally he would criticize anyone who didn't openly accept the muslim faith. But since he has found an ally in Chavez, he chooses to overlook that small fact. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
D'kian Posted November 20, 2007 Report Share Posted November 20, 2007 I still think Bush's biggest mistake was not to give unequivocal support to the coup against Chavez a few years ago. We'd been rid of a madman we very much need to be rid of. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jon Pizzo Posted November 21, 2007 Author Report Share Posted November 21, 2007 I still think Bush's biggest mistake was not to give unequivocal support to the coup against Chavez a few years ago. We'd been rid of a madman we very much need to be rid of. I don't know that much about the coup you are talking about, or the people who were going to carry it out. However, I'm assuming that since they are against Chavez, they probably want the country to be free. If that is the case, I couldn't agree with you more. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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