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“According to Die Welt, Venezuela has agreed to allow Iran to establish a military base manned by Iranian missile officers, soldiers of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard and Venezuelan missile officers. In addition, Iran has given permission for the missiles to be used in case of an "emergency". In return, the agreement states that Venezuela can use these facilities for "national needs" – radically increasing the threat to neighbors like Colombia. The German daily claims that according to the agreement, Iranian Shahab 3 (range 1300-1500 km), Scud-B (285-330 km) and Scud-C (300, 500 and 700 km) will be deployed in the proposed base. It says that Iran also pledged to help Venezuela in rocket technology expertise, including intensive training of officers
Venezuela has also become the country through which Iran intends to bypass UN sanctions. Following a new round of UN sanctions against the Islamic Republic, for example, Russia decided not to sell five battalions of S-300PMU-1 air defence systems to Iran. These weapons, along with a number of other weapons, were part of a deal, signed in 2007, worth $800 million. Now that these weapons cannot be delivered to Iran, Russia is looking for new customers; according to the Russian press agency Novosti[2], it found one: Venezuela.”
— Anna Mahjar-Barducci, December 8, 2010 (hudson-ny.org)
Those of us in our 60s remember the '60s well, except for the drug-addled hippies who can't remember Tuesday. And along with the assassination of John Kennedy, the Cuban missile crisis was the most jarring episode of that tumultuous decade. I remember vividly calling home from Cornell University to say farewell to my parents whom, for the first time in my life, I thought I might never see again.
That crisis, which brought the world closer to the brink of thermonuclear war than ever before or since, fortunately was resolved when President Kennedy and his advisers, notably his own brother Bobby, his Attorney General and closest confidant, won the staring contest with Nikita Khrushchev, who famously "blinked" first.
Today, the United States is being tested not by the Soviet Union but by Iran. Instead of a "Crush Chef" we are confronted by I'madinnerjacket. And instead of Castro in Cuba, we are dealing with Fidel-wannabe Hugo Chavez in Venezuela.
Unfortunately for the United States, as well as the rest of Western Civilization, we are not being lead by a serious President Kennedy with serious Presidential Advisors, including Bobby Kennedy and Secretary of State Dean Rusk, but by The Obama, "aided" by the clownish Joe "BFD" Biden and the silly and pathetic Hillary "Unacceptable Behavior" Clinton.
Fortunately for me, I no longer need be concerned about a farewell to my parents. They are now mercifully beyond any cellphone coverage and television reception.
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