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"Our cowboy mentality has failed us miserably in Venezuela," said Fadel Gheit, an energy industry analyst at Oppenheimer & Company in New York. "We could have pumped up Chávez to be our back-alley oil reserve, but instead we squandered our attention and resources elsewhere. We're paying for having botched Venezuela.""

This is an outrageous statement. This guy wants the US to support and coddle Chavez while ignoring Iraq and the WOT, which heconsidered squandering. He blames the US for Chavez's mismanagement. IDIOT

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This guy wants the US to support and coddle Chavez

Which is exactly what we are doing to Fox and the Mexican government but we never ask for or get anything in return.