Channeling
Reagan, Obama continues US pressure on Latin American leftist governments
Yesterday the White House took a new
step toward the theater of the absurd by “declaring a
national emergency with respect to the unusual and extraordinary
threat to the national security and foreign policy of the United States posed
by the situation in Venezuela,” as President Barack Obama put it in a
letter to House Speaker John Boehner.
It remains to be seen whether anyone in
the White House press corps will have the courage to ask what in the world the
nation’s chief executive could mean by that. Is Venezuela financing a coming
terrorist attack on U.S. territory? Planning an invasion? Building a nuclear
weapon?
