Posted on 01/15/2006 11:15:09 PM PST by West Coast Conservative
With Iranian nuclear aspirations gaining notice, it's worth directing attention to the growing relationship between Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and Venezuela's President Hugo Chávez. The Reagan administration repulsed Soviet efforts to set up camp in Central America. Iranian designs on Venezuela perhaps deserve similar U.S. attention.
The warmth and moral support between Ahmadinejad and Chávez is very public. The two tyrants are a lot more than just pen pals. Venezuela has made it clear that it backs Iran's nuclear ambitions and embraces the mullahs' hateful anti-Semitism. What remains more speculative is just how far along Iran is in putting down roots in Venezuela.
In September, when the International Atomic Energy Agency offered a resolution condemning Iran for its "many failures and breaches of its obligations to comply" with its treaty commitments, Venezuela was the only country that voted "no." Ahmadinejad congratulated the Venezuelan government, calling the vote "brave and judicious."
Three months later, in a Christmas Eve TV broadcast, Chávez declared that "minorities, the descendants of those who crucified Christ, have taken over the riches of the world." That ugly anti-Semitic swipe was of a piece with an insidious assault over the past several years on the country's Jewish community. In 2004, heavily armed Chávez commandos raided a Caracas Jewish school, terrifying children and parents. The government's claim that it had reason to believe that the school was storing arms was never supported. A more reasonable explanation is that the raid was part of the Chávez political strategy of fomenting class hatred--an agenda that finds a vulnerable target in the country's Jewish minority--and as a way to show Tehran that Venezuela is on board. Ahmadinejad rivals Hitler in his hatred for the Jewish people.
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What about Caracas-Havana or the Caracas-Beijing axis?
Or for that matter the Tehran-Moscow axis? I'll stop now...
bttt
Paging Pat Robertson, we now have two "assignments" for you...
Hugo's love affair with Iran is particularly dangerous on a number of levels, one being that both he and the Iranian president are nutcases with fully developed messiah complexes and are beyond the reach of reason. Chavez has been getting closer and closer to Islamic extremists, and like many violent leftists - such as his hero, the terrorist Carlos the Jackal, a convert to Islam - finds common cause with the most violent, authoritarian form of Islam.
The Chinese and the Russians, for all the real threat they may pose to us, are still more or less rational and are not eager to act against their own best interests. On the other hand, Chavez and the Iranians are crazy, motivated by a crazy religion, and will do anything they can to attack us, even if it were to result in harm to them and their countries. Lets hope Iran isn't busy extending its "nuclear power program" to Venezuela.
Wow...Just looked it up on a web Atlas. Puerto Rico and South Florida would be in range of a Shahab-3 fired from Venezuela.
It is well known that VZ has been arming, and it wouldn't surprise me in the least if Hugo and his Muslim buddies have something like this in mind.
bttt
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