A Nuclear Chavez Gets Obama’s OK
Geopolitics: Venezuela’s Hugo Chavez moves ahead with plans to go nuclear with Russian help, and the response from our president has been to give the lunatic dictator his full backing. This is trouble.
Not since the days of Jimmy Carter have we seen as craven a U.S. response to a provocation as Chavez’s plan for two 1,200-megawatt nuclear reactors 1,400 miles from our shores.
“We have no incentive or interest in increasing friction between Venezuela and the U.S., but we do think Venezuela needs to act responsibly,” President Obama told the Spanish-language press Tuesday. “Our attitude is that Venezuela has rights to peacefully develop nuclear power.”