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Sunday, July 30, 2006
Chavez jumps the shark
Yes, there is no more doubt as we predicted Chavez has gone and made a total ass of himself. We figured it would be some statement about how Iran is great, this is even worse. He hugs Ahmedinejad and says he will "stay by Iran at any time and under any condition."
 This might be worse than Gibsons anti-semitic rant, you know, hugging a guy who says he wants Israel to be wiped off the map? It's one thing to hate us, I get it, it makes sense, we're a giant bully. But that doesn't mean you start smooching Ahmedinejad, one of the more evil people on the planet. |
3 Comments:
I don't think it's such a bad move for Chavez. What does he need the US or Israel for?
I'm picturing a not-too-distant future in which Venezuela and Iran co-found the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries Who Don't Sell Oil to the US or Israel (OPEC-WDSO2UI). Chavez and Ahmedinejad have every reason to be friends with privileges.
-JE
11:43 AM, July 30, 2006
It's not whether this is politically good for him, I just think it's immoral.
12:13 PM, July 30, 2006
Wanting to wipe a country off the map is certainly immoral. But surely Iran's bluster is less immoral than the actual wiping of a country off the map.
Iraq is going to be a split, shattered shell of itself due to the sheer complacency and ignorance of local politics by the Bush administration, w/ tons of innocent as fallout. That has to be some kind of immoral. Lebanon is currently being sliced to bits along with its residents, and I have no doubt that if the world would just look away for a few minutes ("Hey, is that a California Condor over there?"), Israel would looooove to do a little map-wiping of its own to their immediate east.
So, while I agree that Ahmedinejad is a moral monster, I find it hard to restrict my finger pointing only to those who wear their monstrosity on their sleeve.
-JE
10:08 PM, July 30, 2006
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