Pat Robertson: “Take Out” Venezuela’s Chavez
CNN:
Conservative Christian broadcaster Pat Robertson has called for the United States to assassinate Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, calling him “a terrific danger” bent on exporting Communism and Islamic extremism across the Americas.“If he thinks we’re trying to assassinate him, I think that we really ought to go ahead and do it,” Robertson told viewers on his “The 700 Club” show Monday. “It’s a whole lot cheaper than starting a war.”
Robertson, a contender for the Republican presidential nomination in 1988, called Chavez “a dangerous enemy to our south, controlling a huge pool of oil, that could hurt us badly.”
Pat Robertson is a charlatan and a pseudo-intellectual. He claims to be a man of God and yet he advocates violence — not just to “save” a 1950s view of America that only ever existed in the minds of cultural conservatives, but because assassination is “cheaper” than war. He is an absolute fool. (And, sadly, such ridiculous statements only help the communist Chavez, who can say “look at this — I told you the Yanqui imperialists are trying to kill me!”*)
(*Besides, everyone knows covert CIA operatives are already propping up insurgent groups in Venezuela and agitating for Chavez’s ouster — no need to draw attention to the fact.)