In a recent UN speech the Venezuelan President gave a speech in which he called Bush the devil. He reminds me very much of Castro of Cuba. Castro abhorred the United States and therefore allied himself with an enemy of the US which was the USSR. Chavez, apparently, has similarly allied himself with an enemy of the US which are Islamic extremists. Its funny how the more things change the more they seem to stay the same.
Originally posted by ivanhoeAs was Castro. If memory serves, Castro almost threw the world into a nuclear nightmare. In fact, I think he was disappointed that it was avoided. I wonder how Chavez will conspire with the terrorists to strike at the US?
Chavez is a dangerous political clown.
Originally posted by whodeyChaves is castro's little apprentice
In a recent UN speech the Venezuelan President gave a speech in which he called Bush the devil. He reminds me very much of Castro of Cuba. Castro abhorred the United States and therefore allied himself with an enemy of the US which was the USSR. Chavez, apparently, has similarly allied himself with an enemy of the US which are Islamic extremists. Its funny how the more things change the more they seem to stay the same.
Originally posted by whodeyHugo Chavez has nothing on Fidel Castro. Castro is so much more of a leader and of a man (at least in his early years) than Chavez is that it is wrong to compare the two.
In a recent UN speech the Venezuelan President gave a speech in which he called Bush the devil. He reminds me very much of Castro of Cuba. Castro abhorred the United States and therefore allied himself with an enemy of the US which was the USSR. Chavez, apparently, has similarly allied himself with an enemy of the US which are Islamic extremists. Its funny how the more things change the more they seem to stay the same.
Chavez has done some good things, but his entire anti-Bush stance is ridiculous and based more upon winning popular ideals than actual reason.
The statement "Bush is the devil" is a great example of this. Believe in Satan or not, the devil isn't going to come chill here on this planet in the guise of the president of the United States. Say that the US government are warmongers, say that we are imperialists, claim that George Bush eats children, those are all more realistic than "Bush is the devil."
If he didn't say stuff like that, stuff that absolutely makes him look ridiculous, then he would seem like a very good leader to me.
Because of the black history between the U.S. and Latin America,
bashing the U.S. is a marvelous domestic strategy to earn points
amongst the left and the millions of poor people. Chavez is just
tightening his already amazing domestic support.
On the other hand, it is funny to see that Chavez, as many U.S. puppet Latin American leaders throughout history, was
educated in the School of the Americas (SOA), called the school
of assassins, where the butchers of masses and dictators had gone
for training.
However, on the other hand, Chavez is a strong supporter of Castro's
Cuba, which in some way legitimizes (?) him in the eyes of the
left worldwide.
Not making any conclusion here, through...
just sharing some thoughts. This forum is so full of people throwing
their truth that I thought it would be great to publicly accept I have no
final, scholar and solid conclusion on this subject. I am still searching
for the truth.
Originally posted by whodeyYour memory serves poorly; it was the United States which almost threw the world into nuclear war. The Soviets put intermediate range nuclear missiles into Cuba in response to the US placing similar weapons into Turkey. The US' hysterical response almost caused a nuclear conflagration and would have if Kennedy had taken the advice of the Joint Chiefs and tried to invade Cuba when the Soviets had sufficient tactical nukes on hand to obliterate an invasion the size of D-Day (and commanders with orders to use them rather than let them fall into US hands). Sanity prevailed (barely): the Soviets agreed to remove their nukes from Cuba and the US agreed to remove their's from Turkey + stop threatening to invade Cuba (the main reason Castro was willing to accept the missiles in the first place). All of this is rather uncontroversial history; I'm always amazed at how ignorant of history right-wing zealots are.
As was Castro. If memory serves, Castro almost threw the world into a nuclear nightmare. In fact, I think he was disappointed that it was avoided. I wonder how Chavez will conspire with the terrorists to strike at the US?