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The blurt by Pat Robertson on the matter of Hugo Chavez received the kind of spastic disavowal it deserved, and also warranted. It would not be sensible to undertake the assassination of Hugo Chavez. Diplomatically it was a mistake even to use the language of assassination. And the greatest damage was to increase the odds against any assassination of Chavez.
If Chavez was going to be shot, or yanked from office, this could be done, and would best be done, by Venezuelans. They very nearly did it last April. U.S. intervention to limit Chavez's term was alleged back then, but we could plausibly deny having had anything to do with the movement to recall him.
Now, even though Pat Robertson cannot be conceived by a jury of halfwits as representing U.S. policy, what he said will be quoted by generations of communicants in the religion of anti-yanquiism to throw doubt on U.S. bona fides.
The principal reason to disavow the assassination of foreign leaders is self-interest. People who are elected or who otherwise achieve political primacy are vested with sacramental immunity. Many kings, presidents and dictators depend for their survival on domestic arrangements. The Emperor Julian required that anyone who entered into his chamber should be stark naked. Mao Tse-tung did not go that far, but might as well have done so given the elaborate measures he adopted to remove himself from the common man he spent his lifetime glorifying, and avoiding the company of.
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So, Buckley says we should be more subtle. And that he should have been quiet in order for such an assassination plot to be successful.
In other words, prop up some white Venezuelans to do the job.
Buckley is the fountainhead for much of this crap. He's spent more than 40 years at it. Dumb asses like Robertson are the direct result of the kind of thinking that Buckley has espoused for almost all my life.
He doesn't say Marion G. Robertson is wrong, he just wants a more stealthy methodology. Fuck Buckley.
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