[be131]

The Bush Administration would be well-advised to correct course and take immediate action designed to prevent the unthinkable loss of Brazil to a Communist-aligned coalition government.

Not sure exactly what the article is suggesting here, but I hope the hotheads in the Bush administration behind the abortive anti-Chavez coup have had their butts spanked hard enough. We don't need another 1970s Chile or Vietnam.

[Tailgunner Joe]

I think you know exactky what he's suggesting.

[Antoninus]

We don't need another 1970s Chile or Vietnam.

What a stupid statement, and with an internal contradiction to boot.

In Chile: Mission accomplished. Chile today is prosperous and free.

In Vietnam: Mission failed. The country is a poverty stricken communist dung-heap that missed the SE Asian economic miracle of the 1980s.

Chavez will not be in Venezuela much longer. His day is coming.