With the growing evidence of Venezuela providing weapons and other support to leftist rebels and drug gangs in Colombia, Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez has launched a traditional propaganda campaign to drown out this embarrassing news. Chavez does this by claiming that Colombia is conspiring with the United States to invade Venezuela. This is pure fantasy, but plays well in South America, because local dictators and tyrants have long used the United States as the external enemy, to distract people from getting angry about problems closer to home.
So let me get this straight.
There are South Americans who can still believe that America will invade them--notwithstanding the fact that we now have President Obama in charge.
And these same South Americans don't believe that the war in Iraq has made it impossible for us to use our military power elsewhere?
I'm not sure what to make of this because I was assured by our Left that President George W. Bush alienated the world and wrecked our military in Iraq.
