The Nation prints a defense of Pat Robertson
Richard Kim of The Nation provides an interesting pseudo-defense of Pat Robertson's comments.
Kim is right about one thing--the media did a poor job of exploring Robertson's claim that the U.S. may be trying to assassinate Chavez.
It's not as if we have not tried such things before, particularly in Latin America. Instead of causing a national debate on the topic, most of the media got religion and sanctimoniously castigated Robertson for his comments.
I have heard rumors of repeated attempts at assassinating Castro followed by official U.S. Policy against political assassinations.
That we tried to overthrow Castro by force is not disputed.
I wonder what would have happened if we had decided to assassinate Saddam Hussein instead of invading Iraq...not something I'm advocating, just something that I think it might be interesting to explore.
Kim is right about one thing--the media did a poor job of exploring Robertson's claim that the U.S. may be trying to assassinate Chavez.
It's not as if we have not tried such things before, particularly in Latin America. Instead of causing a national debate on the topic, most of the media got religion and sanctimoniously castigated Robertson for his comments.
I have heard rumors of repeated attempts at assassinating Castro followed by official U.S. Policy against political assassinations.
That we tried to overthrow Castro by force is not disputed.
I wonder what would have happened if we had decided to assassinate Saddam Hussein instead of invading Iraq...not something I'm advocating, just something that I think it might be interesting to explore.
posted by SLCsteve at
11:40 AM
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It was official US policy since the Clinton Administration, supported by Congress, to overthrow Saddam Hussein. Operation Desert Fox was in part air support for an attempted coup, which failed, like several before it.
It's hard to assasinate the head of a police state. The entire security apparatus of Iraq was directed to preserving Saddam Hussein. The guy didn't even sleep in the same place every night.
As to Chavez, I'm sure CIA ISN'T trying. Assassination is against the law, you know. And one thing we can certainly say about CIA is that it has become unbearably risk-averse. All government agencies turn into the DMV and all that.
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