John Chuckman
COMMENT POSTED TO AN ARTICLE IN THE INDEPENDENT
"Trump’s Secretary of State Pompeo says Hezbollah is active in Venezuela”
The statement is pretty close to insane. But in the United States these days any wild or outrageous claim is treated as acceptable, so long as it advances the "narrative."
The statement is so far out that it doesn’t recognize what Hezbollah actually is. It is an organization which deters Israel from attacking Lebanon again, one created to push Israel out of the Southern portion of Lebanon it had illegally occupied for many years. What possibly would be its interest in Venezuela? Or even its capacity?
The statement reveals only what ignorant fantasy we are dealing with at the highest level of American government. Its only purpose is to exploit the fear associated with the notion of a so-called terrorist organization. Pompeo’s Hezbollah is a cartoon character Israel invented years ago and promotes for its own benefit. Ergo, we should attack Venezuela, destroying the legally elected government we don’t happen to like. Sure, that makes a lot of sense to me.
It’s a pretty sad state for a great nation to be reduced to, blurting out stuff like a drunk on a street corner.
Well, Pompeo is a "born again" fundamentalist Christian who brags of keeping an open Bible on his office desk. Someone who believes Satan is a real, living, breathing presence in the world. Someone who believes Jesus died for our sins twenty centuries ago. Someone who believes Jesus is returning with a blast of trumpets and a host of mighty angels.
Imagine, the relevance of the nightmarish words of the New Testament’s Book of Revelations or the crack-brained myths of the Old Testament to a thermonuclear power?
It’s scary to think about. But that is America today.
