This isn't merely an isolated coup against democracy but another socket on the axis of evil of whose other joints it is inconvenient to speak. This is the fifth front opening up (sixth if you include Columbia) the others being Afghanistan, Iraq, North Korea, and the Phillipines.
Venezuala is emphatically of more significance as a center of terrorists that can threaten us, being here in our own hemisphere.
Behind the curtain in all this is China, I suspect.
More evidence that a new Cold War seige, with proxy wars, has begun all over again.
The idea of a Castro clone with oil, who can manipulate markets and cause uncertainty and recession, is frightening.
It's time for a reprise of Chile. Let the left whine; this is too important.