I was checking out the State Department's daily press briefings, to see if the Goldstone report had been mentioned. It had been, on the 15th, but in an evasive and oblique manner: "It’s over 500 pages. It has – it covers a number of very complex issues and very sensitive issues. We want to take some time to digest it completely and we’ll review it very carefully," and then "we expressed our concern about the humanitarian suffering in both Gaza and in Israel." With that foretaste, as well as any knowledge of the political proclivities of BHO, we should've known that the Obama administration would worry about the unfairness of the Goldstone Report. The Goldstone report, as we all know by now, wasn't overtly concerned about "humanitarian" suffering in Israel [though more than it should've been] because Israel carried out a massacre. That's how such things work, usually.
Anyway, this post is actually about Venezuela. At that same press briefing, Mr. Ian Kelly said that "we are concerned about the plans of Venezuela to purchase more arms." Ridiculous claims about Venezuelan arms purchases are perennial growths in American commentary and the brains [sic?] of officialdom, but it's funny, when you actually look at who's buying what, the issue isn't what they're buying but who is buying it. Since Chavez, in the invulnerable-to-satire words of a Bogota-based "security and defense expert with the consultancy Grupo Triarius in Bogota," [meaning, presumably, that he maintains a database of union leaders for the Uribe government's paramilitaries to plug full of bullets], is the confectioner of an “ideological expansionist project," he's not allowed guns.
BoRev puts that nonsense in perspective:
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