3 ms·
Why is it surprising? America can't go against every one who doesn't agree with them. It needs to weigh its options carefully and intelligently. The mere rea
by jscore 16y ago
Why is it surprising? America can't go against every one who doesn't agree with them. It needs to weigh its options carefully and intelligently. The mere reason that Hugo Chavez is still in power testifies to this fact.
The world is not black and white where we might send CIA or Special Forces to neutralize someone who we don't like. It's definitely more complicated than it seems.
There are other, more indirect ways to neutralize what he's doing. A good one is using the media to sway public opinion, etc. Another one is to discredit the guy by linking him to some "terrorist group/government" and say they're funding him, etc.
- commandar 16y ago>The mere reason that Hugo Chavez is still in power testifies to this fact. That and the fact that the last time they tried, he turned out the be more resilient than expected -- and the coupe leaders far more incompetent; the coupe failed at least in part because they left Chavez's own people guarding the presidential palace after they took it over. Oops -- and the whole thing ended up being a huge embarrassment and likely gave Hugo an extra push over the old crazy ledge.
- adolph 16y agoJust a style pointer: Coupe: a hardtop two door car [1.] Coup: an overthrow of a government by focused action against the central leadership [2.] 1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coupé http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coupé 2. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coup http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coup
- zephyrfalcon 16y ago"Why is it surprising? America can't go against every one who doesn't agree with them. It needs to weigh its options carefully and intelligently. The mere reason that Hugo Chavez is still in power testifies to this fact." In this post-cold war world, he might be less important, so I would expect there would be less of an effort to oust him. The US does have, shall we say, a bit of a track record of unseating governments they don't like. (Look at this list [http://www.zompist.com/latam.html http://www.zompist.com/latam.html] for Latin America alone...)
- sdcfvbnjkllkj 16y agoActually it has a track record of failing embarrassingly to oust governments it doesn't like, cuba, angola, france ...
- zephyrfalcon 16y agoAgreed, they haven't always been successful. I wasn't aware that they tried to replace France's government though...