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Chavez: Doing His Best to Keep the Neocons in the Driver's Seat

This Hugo Chavez is a piece of work. While I'm quite critical of US foreign policy, and I tend to think that Israel overreacted to Hizbollah's taking of two soldiers, this news report has me scratching my head.

Chavez, attempting to apparently ingratiate himself with the Muslim world, said:

"Nothing equals the Nazi crimes Israel has committed in Lebanon and against the Palestinians," said Chavez, who arrived in Syria on Tuesday evening from Malaysia.

Nothing? In all of human history or currently, Chavez finds Israel's actions the worst. One can be critical, surely, of any number of actions that Israel's taken, but to suggest that Israel is "Nazi" is beyond ridiculous, IMO. For the most part, it seems obvious that they are trying to defend their homeland, albeit sometimes somewhat aggressively. Israel has never demonstrated that it has designs on imposing Judaism, for instance, on wide swaths of the globe. Israel doesn't, to my knowledge, force prisoners to convert to the Jewish faith, like those Fox reporters who were recently taken hostage were forced to convert to Islam.

What Chavez does do is create ammunition for the neoconservatives. "See, we told you so," they'll say. Add Chavez to the "Axis of Evil." I can see the wheels spinning now in the heads of the Weekly Standard editors, trying to justify a pre-emptive strike on Caracas, Venezuela's capital.

Chavez is, paradoxically, a neocon's dream.

-Robert Capozzi

Posted by Robert Capozzi on August 31, 2006 08:15 AM |

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