Terrorism? How does the United States of America avoid decertifying itself?

The United States of America is again showing off its "either you are with us or against us" mentality, criticized Venezuela's anti-terrorism efforts and, as punishment, has cut off all arms sales to Venezuela.

As a practical matter, this has little effect on Venezuela as they aren't currently purchasing much of anything from the United States of America ... the main impact will be on some aging F-16 fighters that they now won't be able to get spare parts for.

Most likely, they will now buy Russian MiG fighters to replace them.

* However, the most interesting aspect of this news isn't the arms cut-off but the nonsense about terrorism.

The US State Department's report really doesn't go into any detail beyond what can be found in North American media reports.

If this doesn't show the imperial arrogance and hubris that comes with being the worlds sole superpower it's hard to think of what would.

Let's see ... Venezuela itself is not involved with terrorism.

But it befriends country's that supposedly are ... Cuba and Iran ... so, now, its not what you do but what your friends do that matters...

If that's the case how does the United States avoid decertifying itself?

For example, the US openly befriends and supports Pakistan ... yet that country supports terrorists operating in the Kashmir and India. Further, that country is a proliferator of WMD, as the designer of its atomic bomb was shopping its design around to other countries like Iran. And this is not only a country that the US befriends, but funds with hundreds of millions of dollars.

I guess no-one will ever accuse the US government of being consistent.

Then ... they accuse Chavez of having "publicly championed Iraqi terrorists." I assume they mean he supports the insurgency which is resisting US occupation. Well, welcome to the club Hugo. And who'd have thought by defending the right of self-determination and standing against good old-fashioned imperialism, we would be viewed as coddlers of terrorists?

* I guess, given that smearing people with the "commie" label doesn't really work any more, they had to come up with something else.

Then we get to the heart of the matter ... he has a “ideological affinity” with some Colombian guerillas?

Wow, I guess I better run right out and burn my Karl Marx teader that I still have hanging around from my college days. They're beyond even guilt by association. It's now guilt by even having some shared thoughts. Scary. I think I just realized I'm in league with Hamas. Hamas thinks Bush is an *******. I think Bush is an *******.

Damn, Hamas and I are practically the same thing!

The other day I said Chavez should wear his not being selected to a human rights commission (with such human rights luminaries as Saudi Arabia and China) as a badge of honor.

Yet now the US State Department has handed him another badge of honor...

Looks like he is going to have quite a collection before these people are done.
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