What is it with "Tin Horn dictators" that they always, (nearly without fail) seem compelled to don a military uniform, grab a rifle, and have photos taken of themselves, in a menacing stance, glaring at the lens of the camera with hate filled eyes, as if they were daring the world to come after them?Why is that?
(Well, admittedly that is a bit of an overstatement on my part. They aren't daring THE WORLD to come after them… they are daring the US to come after them!)
Now, when you have a "piss ant", like Chavez, and the US ignores him… after deciding he offers only a low level threat to anyone (but himself and his people)... he puffs up, like a toad, and prances around, and proclaims that his challenge has cowered the US.
This week Chavez handed out new Russian made Kalashnikov rifles to his troops. Even though the Kalashnikov is quite likely the best combat rifle in the world today, it is not the caliber of the rifle, but the caliber of the men behind it, that wins battles and wars. So long as men of the caliber of Chavez threaten the US we have little to fear.
One can poke a tiger with a stick only so often. Eventually, the big cat will become annoyed and destroy the source of its aggravation.
I am, however, a little concerned that upon the death of Fidel, in Cuba, Chavez will make a move to establish control of that strategic island just 90 miles off our coast.
That will be the day we squash him.
When that happens, the US will be in Cuba to stay. Cuba will become a territory of the US. Chavez will become history.
In the meantime we have to tune out his braying and chest pounding. He will quieten down... once we are no longer distracted with Iraq… if he lasts that long, which, frankly, I doubt.
With the Russians selling arms to Chavez, It might be a good time to remind Russia of the Monroe Doctrine, which was created by US President James Monroe, to thwart Russia's attempts to interfere in this hemisphere. They are getting dangerously close to interfering… again.
It would seem that Russia's serious "Bi-Polar disorder", as regards Russia's relationship with America, has taken another turn. It swings from "Love America" to "Hate America" every few decades. When they are in their "Hate America" mode, they go looking for comrades to use to annoy the US. It would seem they have found one in Chavez. Not the sharpest knife in the drawer, Chavez has no inkling that he will play the marionette while Russia pulls the strings.
The endless war between Russia, and their surrogates... and the US, and our surrogates, just goes on, and on, and on…
Longstreet
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