[RedWhiteBlue]

Chavez charges that the US supported the aborted coup against him two years ago. I'm thinking that I should start complaining that we didn't support it, and should have.

I'm thinking that the failure of the coup is proof positive that we weren't behind it. If we had supported it, it wouldn't have failed.

[Dog Gone]

Absolutely. If anything, we didn't support the coup enough which gave the coup leaders some shivers.

It was a hard call in Washington. The coup was clearly illegal under Venezuelan law. And Chavez was a creep. Endorsing it had risks, but opposing it was dumb.

Ultimately, we remained silent. We upheld the Venezuelan Constitution which Chavez continues to trash.

Smart move? I don't think we can truly judge until long after Chavez is gone.

We didn't interfere with the democratic process, but we're also in risk of losing it there altogether.