The Coming Venezuela Missile Crisis

RealClearPolitics ^ | December 22, 2010 | Jed Babbin

[neverdem]

The next Israeli crisis is being manufactured in South America. As unimaginable as it is for the byzantine politics of Latin America to become more complicated, a metastasized Middle Eastern "peace process" has produced just that result...

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Chavez's close relationship to the world's principal sponsor of terrorism isn't new, but it is a quantum leap in escalation of his enmity to America and his threat to South American democracies.

The 1962 Cuban missile crisis was the closest the United States came to a nuclear war. With Soviet medium range missiles in Cuba, capable of carrying nuclear warheads to any American city, JFK's demands that they be withdrawn were accompanied by the threat that we would remove them ourselves. An Air Force U-2 reconnaissance aircraft was shot down over Cuba raising tensions close to war. A naval blockade of Cuba was about to engage and turn back a Russian convoy when the Russians backed down.

Chavez's Venezuela was, for a time, Castro's Cuba on steroids. His new "socialist" revolution is bankrupting the nation, but Chavez is working diligently - with Iranian and Russian help - to do what his idol, Fidel, failed to do.

Unless President Obama acts decisively to stop the Iranian missiles and the Iranian base from being set up in Venezuela, Ahmadinejad will have succeeded where Kruschev failed. With Chavez in thrall to Iran, the terrorist nation will have gained a foothold in our hemisphere, proving able to do in South and Central America what it has done in the Middle East and Afghanistan.

If the first two years of the Obama administration are any guide, odds are that Israel will be alone in dealing with the Palestinian-manufactured crisis with Brazil and Argentina. But how will President Obama deal with the coming Venezuelan Missile Crisis?

[Venturer]

He will go down there, bow to Chavez, give him a fist bump and loan him the money to buy the Nukes from Iran.

[Truth29]

How will Obama deal with the coming Venezuelan missile crisis? It is only a crisis if Obama declares it is and acts to resist or contain it. What if he simply does nothing and lets Chavez play havoc in South and Central America. It might only be a crisis to Obama if Chavez starts firing missiles into the continental US. Maybe then he would establish a study commission to find out why we had so provoked Chavez.

[Rocky]

I hope we are ready to launch.

[Fred Hayek]

Castro on steroids? The only difference between Castro and Chavez is that Chavez has oil money. How long that will last is questionable, not so much about running out of oil, but more running off the competent technical people from PdVSA due to “political reliability” - unless the Chinese fill the gap.
As for Castro, remember that Castro and Guevara were too close to taking control over the Soviet missiles and launching them.

[KoRn]

0bama will probably offer up one of our US military bases for Chavez to house Immadinnerjacket’s missiles.

[The Great RJ]

Obama will send lots of letters to Iamanutjob saying it is naughty to put missiles in Venezuela and the US won't tolerate them. He will then go beg the UN to help and impose sanctions to no avail. In the meantime Iran will have nuclear tipped missiles in Venezuela aimed at the US. Of course Obama has killed any serious missile defense system, gutted US naval forces and our all volunteer military forces will be under manned in reaction to allowing openly gay members.

I would suggest we all start building fallout shelters.

[the_Watchman]

The Soviets left troops in Cuba purportedly to keep control of the launch capability. The story I remember was that the soccer fields constructed for the Soviet troops was what alerted the U.S. to take a closer look.

[Dallas59]

People laugh at Chavez now....but in a few years when he tests his first nuke....and to think the libs laughed at Bush for saying Saddam would want a nuke.

[neverdem]

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[Eaker]

How will Obama deal with the coming Venezuelan missile crisis?

Play basketball listen to rap and destroy America?

It is amazing that the majority of blacks cannot see this and still support his stupid ass.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks neverdem.

[Radix]

I've always long been aware of why that there is no Missile Program in Mexico.

Reason?

Every time that they say “Launch” the workers stop and go get something to eat.

[Quix]

CERTAINLY, imho, Venezuela WILL BE

attacking the USA along with Russia, Iran, NK, China, Mexico, Cuba, Khadafi sp?, . . . et al.

The globalist, traitorous, Marxist, corrupt wind bag has been set up and protected to help do so, imho.

[M. Espinola]

"The Coming Venezuela Missile Crisis

Thanks to the Russians, but that issue, nor Iran, Syria or North Korean nukes was addressed in the U.S. Senate sell out to Moscow's 'START' farce.

[neverdem]

Play basketball listen to rap and destroy America?

And get a split lip too!

It is amazing that the majority of blacks cannot see this and still support his stupid ass.

Ethnic and racial solidarity isn't new. Only refugees from communism like the Cubans seem to have a clue. It's not two years into Obama's term. I pray Blacks may wake up before it's over.

[Army Air Corps]

Ping.

[Always Independent]

And how will he respond, Lets cut missile defense!

[DeweyCA]

Venezuela would be a good place from which terrorists could launch an EMP attack on the US.

[neverdem]

Always Independent, how have you been voting from 2006 until now for federal offices, if I may ask?