Lagniappe

 

 

Scott Sullivan: Bush appeases
Ahmadinejad in South America

 

Maybe it is President Bush's idiotic slogan of "we care" (Chavez will
riposte with "we care more!"). Maybe, it is Bush's failure to condemn Hugo
Chavez's confiscation of the wealth of US investors. Maybe it is Bush's
failure to condemn the gathering Ahmadinejad (a.k.a. Che Guevara) terrorist
offensive in South America, supported by Chavez. Ahmadinejad will supply
the terrorists, as Iran did in 1990's Argentina, while Chavez will supply
the money.

The feeling is inescapable that President Bush is pandering to Ahmadinejad
and Chavez or, even worse, trying to beat them at their own game by
outflanking them with fascist and populist rhetoric. Yet Bush cannot
outflank them because their game is Che Guevara's game - Permanent
Revolution in South America, with Bolivia, again as in the 1960's, in the
vanguard. Read their speeches, carefully. These two "ultras" will do
exactly what they say they will do -- attack. Chavez is not buying 100,000
AK-47's because he can find nothing better to do with the money.

Fortunately, Ahmadinejad will fail, like Che before him, thanks to Brazil,
Colombia, Mexico, and Chile. Unless deterred early, however, he will drag
down a very large number of innocent victims in his reckless schemes.

President Bush knows Cuban history. He is well aware of the tragedy of Che
Guevara - that Fidel Castro cut off all supplies to Guevara after he moved
his Permanent Revolution from Cuba to the mountains of Bolivia in 1967 to
ignite a South American-wide revolt. Fidel knew Che had turned
ultra-leftist (like A. today) and had become a danger to South America, an
embarrassment to Cuba, and a liability to Fidel personally (and so Fidel was
told by the Russians and the Chinese). Bolivia's communist party, in charge
of Che's logistics, agreed. So Fidel Castro cut off Che Guevara at the
knees, and his supply line was suspended. The rest is history. Che died a
brave man, but he never had a chance.

The message is that South America has been inhospitable to ultra-leftists,
and always will be (ask the Shining Path in Peru). Why this is true is for
the academics to ponder, but true it is. What President Bush wants to avoid
on his trip is plunging into a pro-Che/Ahmadinejad trap that Fidel Castro so
carefully avoided in the 1960's.

In short, the ultra-leftist Ahmadinejad and his South American intervention
with Hezbollah terrorists is poison, and to not cut him off at the knees, as
Fidel did with Che Guevara, is a big mistake. And what about Hugo Chavez --
can he be as wise as Fidel? If not, will Commandante Ahmadinejad become his
liability?

Scott Sullivan is a former Washington government employee. Petroleumworld not necessarily share these views.

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Petroleumworld News 03/09/07

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