Venezuelan dictator Hugo Chavez went all the way to the Middle East to deliver his latest anti-U.S. rants. His first stop was the OPEC summit in Saudi Arabia where he urged those gathered to fight against American “imperialism.” Be sure to read Jackson’s Diehl’s truth-telling in the Washington Post. It’s about Chavez’s efforts to become president-for-life in a nation that will “very soon join Cuba as one of two formally ’socialist’ nations in the Western hemisphere.”
Then it was off to Tehran where he and Mahmoud Ahmadinejad sought to strenthen their relationship.
It’s bad news whenever these two get together. This “relationship” figures to be a pain in America’s gas tank for quite some time. So why is it taking us so long to put the marketplace to work developing new domestic clean energy alternatives?
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