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Reporter's Notebook: Richard Pilkington

War possible . . . ?

War possible in the next few years
www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/news/opinion/1072536 1.htm
By Carlos Alberto Montaner (subscription may be req'd)

Would friends in the Narcosphere care to dissect Mr. Montaner or, at least, his opinions?

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At the cutting edge of oligarch hype

What do you say about an extreme right wing Cuban exile propagandist whose hysterics paint Chavez as some kind of "Castro but worse" demon?  Do you imply that after so many years in the good graces of the CIA and the Miami Cuban exile community, he's done well enough for himself that he's willing to forgo reclaiming Cuban properties to defend humanity from the menace in Caracas?  And if so, would that make him a sell out?  
Or would it better to imply that he's a smart guy - recognizing that Cuba lacks the prerequisite oil to justify full scale U.S. invasion in the near future.  If you can't invade Cuba next month to restore the mafia and give the good rum factories to Bacardi, maybe it's better to focus efforts on removing any elected leaders who might come to Castro's defense.  
And maybe he'd have a good point with that.  Chavez's government has made it clear that they'd respond to a military attack from the United States on Venezuela with a cutoff of oil to the United States.  Why that simple and infallible logic should have shocked anyone in the U.S. is beyond me.  What country on earth would continue to sell vital resources to invaders?  But left undiscussed is a question more pertinent to the right dreamers among the Miami Cubans.  What would happen to the flow of Venezuelan oil if the U.S. militarily attacked Cuba?  Replace Chavez with a suitable puppet of the oligarchy and nobody needs to worry about crippling the U.S. oil economy by invading Cuba.
Or maybe you don't mess around trying to ascribe motives for Mr. Carlos Alberto Montaner's writing.  Maybe you just methodically blow apart his distortions and lies one at a time.  How does that saying go?  The destruction of a thousand lies starts with a single line.
Quoting the squalid mouthpiece of oligarchy:
"Unlike what happened in the 20th century when all confrontations were caused by border disputes,"
He's talking about wars in Latin America during the 20th century.  Perhaps he'd like us to forget about most of those wars.  Things like the bombing and death squads in El Salvador, the terrorist rampage against Nicaragua and outright genocide in Guatemala didn't have much to do with border disputes, did they?  But they're also very bad PR for the essentially fascist brand of anti-communist ideology which Mr. Carlos Alberto Montaner espouses.  Maybe that's why he'd rather we forgot such things even happened.    

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