WASHINGTON -- Sen. Christopher Dodd, the very liberal Connecticut Democrat, wrote of his recent visit to Venezuela in a letter to the editor of The Washington Post. Hugo Chavez, the neo-Marxist military leader, was "democratically elected," Mr. Dodd notes; he urges the White House "to reconsider its failed approach to Venezuela." In just the same way, Dodd would welcome back Jean-Bertrand Aristide, his best friend in Haiti. Dodd is known in Washington as "the senator from accounting," a richly earned sobriquet for the legislation he initiated that would have protected the Arthur Andersen firm for its role in the Enron...