From Venezuela, A Counterplot

Bump for the Venezuelan freedom fighters. They are dying for our freedom too.

Venezuela needs a Pinochet, and fast.

This does help to put the whole Allende/Pinochet episode in perspective, doesn't it.

Seriously, we need to have a team in there now, organizing the counter-coup. We obviously can't have our fingerprints on it, but thats not necessary. You could compare it to our action in Afghanistan. A few specialists working with indigenous forces on the ground, to help them do what they intend to do.

Several things need to happen simultaneously. The next million man march needs to advance for the presidential palace, and take it. The opposition has to be prepared for the worst. Certain military units are in sympathy with Chavez. It is doubtful that they will fire on civilians, but the Bolivarians will, and the mercenaries will.

Chavez's Bolivarians and his foreign mercenaries will be on rooftops ready to open fire, so we need to have a handful of teams that can be scrambled to neutralize the sharpshooters. Another team has to be prepared to deal with the security at the palace if they decide to fight; if they are mercenaries, they will fight. But the crowd has to be an integral part of it. Whatever happens, it needs to be the Venezuelan people themselves that will claim the victory. Specialists in the crowd have to insure that there is a victory to celebrate.

Other teams must have previously staked out the safehouses for the various Iraqi agents and renegade Al Qaedists.

These teams can all be Venezuelans, with coordination provided by the US. This may sound desperate, but it is time to pull the plug on the Chavists. The hammer needs to come down hard, and we need to have back-up plans behind back-up plans. If easy doesn't work, we have to be prepared to go hard within moments of encountering complications.

This is every bit as important as Baghdad, and needs to be treated as such.

Iranian refinery workers should be protected and treated with sympathy, but deported quickly. Iraqis and Al Qaedists must must not survive their encounter with us. Cubans in Cuban uniforms should be treated with respect if they are not directing an armed fight. But those Cubans acting as mercenaries, taken in arms, should likewise not survive the encounter.

In the aftermath there needs to be a concerted effort to purge the country of every Arab and every Cuban to have entered the country, legally or otherwise, during the Chavez period. While Chavex must not survive, key secret policemen, such as Chavez' torturers must be tried afterward to put a resounding political end to the Chavizt era.

Off with his head I say!

This does help to put the whole Allende/Pinochet episode in perspective, doesn't it.

Yes, you'd think people would learn from history the peril of electing Marxist presidents. Things such as Supreme Courts and Legislatures can be easily ignored when the desire to accelerate the "revolutionary process" takes hold.

getting bad down there, Nicaragua all over again

He probably will be next. Venezuela is our # 3 oil supplier.