Comments on: Chavez Threatening Colombia

By: Joe Grajales

Joe Grajales — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 22:38:45 +0000

Great post there. Conservatives will not let this proto-communist dictator attack its democratic neighbor, which happens to be our main ally in the region. And all the talk about the American military being overstretched is overdone. The US would only need to send down a couple of air craft carriers and cruisers into the Caribbean and wipe out the Venezuelan war infrastructure. The Colombian army is probably second only to the Marines as far as being battle tested and tough as nails, so they could do the work on the ground. Chavez better tread carefully or he’ll end up like Mussolini!

By: martian

martian — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 16:42:00 +0000

The tried and true method for a dictator to retain power – start a war! Make sure everyone is concentrating on the war and blame the enemy for all of the problems – economic downturns, shortages, etc. – that are facing your country. (T)Hugo is just following the script. What he’s counting on is that we are stretched too thin militarily and politically to give significant help to Columbia.

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By: Quilly Mammoth

Quilly Mammoth — Sun, 02 Mar 2008 23:36:12 +0000

(T)Hugo’s oil counts for less than 10% of the oil we use. NAFTA requires that Canada make up any shortages such an embargo would create. (Yeah, Obama…let’s scrap NAFTA you dolt). More importantly, the only real producing fields that (T)Hugo has produce a type of oil that only in America are there many refineries capable of refining it. The fields that produce lighter crude require foreign assistance to develop…and he stole them _before_ that really happened. The refineries in Venezuela were in the middle of being fully upgraded to refine his oil effectively but, well, he stole them before fully complete _and_ enough local talent was trained enough to keep going.In short, the doofus really needs us more than we need him. In a war Colombia’s Army is vastly superior to Venezuela’s. However, the acquisition of SU-30MK@ by Venezuela last year makes them quantitatively better than Colombia’s Kfir and Mirage 5 fighters. If Colombia can knock down the SU-30s than tehir Super Tacanos will decimate Venezuela’s Army.

By: feeblemind

feeblemind — Sun, 02 Mar 2008 21:10:44 +0000

If Chavez goes to war with Columbia, do we still buy his oil? If not, where will we get it? Either way, I look for it to support the price of oil.