« Holland: Muslim Rage at Burka Ban |
| US: Trial Date Set for Members of "LA Jihad" »
October 18, 2005
Venezuela: Still Looking for Nuclear Technology
Nuclear proliferation is a serious issue, if only because the more countries obtain nuclear weapons, the more likely it is somebody will use them. (And then there is the nightmare scenario, where Islamic terrorists set off a nuke on an American city.) Nukes are the best hope weaker countries have of warding off an attack from the United States, or of obtaining economic giveaways from a scared international community. To make matters worse, any pitiful dictator with delusions of grandeur will love to have them as a status symbol. That's why I suspect Hugo Chavez is looking to build the bomb. Signs are not encouraging: Brazil in talks with Venezuela on nuclear energy assistance
BRASILIA (AFX) - Brazil is discussing with Venezuela the possibility of cooperating in the field of nuclear energy, Brazilian media reported yesterday, citing a foreign policy adviser to President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, Marco Aurelio Garcia.Last week, Argentina's foreign minister Rafael Bielsa confirmed a report that Venezuela was seeking to buy a medium-sized nuclear power reactor from Argentina.
It gets even worse. Brazil is governed by leftist President Luis Ignacio "Lula" da Silva, who is also an enemy (or at least an "opponent") of the United States. Chavez gets the headlines, but Lula has been more effective in derailing American interests in the region (such as the apparent sinking of the Free Trade Area of the Americas), not to mention showing hostility (for an example, see here) against "American arrogance." Lula, in short, sees the U.S. as the enemy, and his strategic thinking might be dictated by those views, as well as his leftist hatred of "Capitalism". He might, then, be inclined to help Chavez in his hypothetical quest for nuclear weapons.
I sincerely hope the Bush administration will look closely at this worrisome issue.
Posted by Ruy Diaz at October 18, 2005 2:47 PM
Trackback Pings
TrackBack URL for this entry:
http://www.westernresistance.com/blog/mt-tb.cgi/550
Listed below are links to weblogs that reference Venezuela: Still Looking for Nuclear Technology:
» PC(USA) - Presbyterian 101 - Gambling
from PC(USA) - Presbyterian 101 - Gambling
phentermine [Read More]
Tracked on July 25, 2006 12:36 PM
» Octavio from Octavio
cialis dose asian voyeur teen amatures let... [Read More]
Tracked on September 14, 2006 9:35 PM
Comments
Post a comment
Thanks for signing in, . Now you can comment. (sign out)
(If you haven't left a comment here before, you may need to be approved by the site owner before your comment will appear. Until then, it won't appear on the entry. Thanks for waiting.)