Hugo your way and I'll go mine...
(If a man is to be known by his enemies as well as his friends, I'd observe that among American policymakers in recent memory are more than a few who despised Chavez and admired the late Augusto Pinochet in equal measure)
I had this to say on the subject in another venue five years ago, and am not disposed to alter it:
It's not that this country has any moral standing when it comes to Latin America, and I still am disposed to direct my motor fuel dollars to Venezuela's Citgo rather than to the House of Saud, but it must be observed that Hugo Chavez, after feasting on his own press clippings for the past few years, is falling into the predictable pattern of the South American strongman. I think we may take it as a given that before the next election Venezuela's existing constitutional barriers to Hugo's continuing hold on power will have been suitably modified. Pity, that. But the United States, patron, sponsor, enabler and Onlie True Begetter of sundry sombrero'd horrors South of the Border, must needs find itself short of breath when it comes time to huff and to puff.
Oh, and Jane Fonda? A fatuous gesture, to be sure, but no worse (unless we are holding Yoo Ess Aiy tribalism as the greatest good, and deviation from same as the direst evil) than some chippy shaking her booty to a crowd of horny GIs in one of Bob Hope's USO shows. Plus, she was rooting for the side that did and
ought to have won.
cordially,
Edited by
rcareaga
Feb. 18, 2012, 01:53:41 PM EST
Hugo your way and I'll go mine...
(If a man is to be known by his enemies as well as his friends, I'd observe that among American policymakers in recent memory are more than a few who despised Chavez and admired the late Augusto Pinochet in equal measure)
I had this to say on the subject in another venue five years ago, and am not disposed to alter it:
It's not that this country has any moral standing when it comes to Latin America, and I still am disposed to direct my motor fuel dollars to Venezuela's Citgo rather than to the House of Saud, but it must be observed that Hugo Chavez, after feasting on his own press clippings for the past few years, is falling into the predictable pattern of the South American strongman. I think we may take it as a given that before the next election Venezuela's existing constitutional barriers to Hugo's continuing hold on power will have been suitably modified. Pity, that. But the United States, patron, sponsor, enabler and Onlie True Begetter of sundry sombrero'd horrors South of the Border, must needs find itself short of breath when it comes time to huff and to puff.
Oh, and Jane Fonda? A fatuous gesture, to be sure, but no worse (unless we are holding Yoo Ess Aiy tribalism as the greatest good, and deviation from same as the direst evil) than than some chippy shaking her booty to a crowd of horny GIs in one of Bob Hope's USO shows. Plus, she was rooting for the side that did and
ought to have won.
cordially,
