The Minor Powers: Venezuela & Iran

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Not so nice “the collapse and crumbling of your devilish rule has started."
The devil and Mr. Chavez "We are confronting the devil, and we will hit a home run off the devil next Sunday,"

The minor powers: Venezuela & Iran

Both the leaders of Iran and Venezuela use the same terminology when describing the west or more specific the United States. Their world media campaign continues from their fall campaign in the U.S. this last fall when they were both at the United Nations and gave rallies after their speeches. It was no accident that they made sure they held the “press conferences” at different times to maximize their live coverage on CNN & Fox News.

Now, Chavez is in an election on Sunday and he is not running against a domestic opponent but the “devil” in Washington D.C. Who could vote against him and vote for the devil? No one obviously, and so he will win and continue to be a pebble in our shoe, nothing threatening just irritating if they are just by themselves.

But I am convinced that something is going on here between these two. They are too well organized and talking off the same page. Iran controls oil and terrorism in the middle-east with its control of Hamas and Hezbollah. Venezuela controls oil and strong ties to Cuba who is well known for their trouble making in Central and South America.

This week Hamas said they were willing to talk peace for the next six months, but then threatened renewed violence in an uprising if there was no Palestinian state in Gaza and the West Bank. A timeline and objective that is impossible to meet, therefore not a real effort to make peace.

I believe all this is to stall the west and ready themselves for something bigger. Iran progressing with Nukes, and violence in the middle-east and Venezuela ,one of our biggest suppliers of Oil could lead to serious trouble. I just hope that Pres. Bush is not too distracted with congress and possible hearings that could lead to impeachment charges, to deal with these important but minor powers, as many have said Clinton was too distracted by his impeachment hearings to deal with Bin-Ladin.

Chris Mendelsohn
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