John Chuckman
COMMENT POSTED TO AN ARTICLE ON CBC NEWS
“Venezuelan Air Force General Announces Support for Guaido”
You can bet good money on the idea that Gen. Francisco Yanez was paid a tidy sum, perhaps banked offshore, to do this.
Likely promised, too, a good place if Guaido succeeds in overthrowing the legitimate government.
Now, if a senior Pentagon officer did exactly the same thing, what do you think his fate would be?
They have zero tolerance for anything of this nature in Washington, except when they are imposing it on others.
It is simply treason, and undoubtedly violates an oath the general took.
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Response to a comment:
So, a guy who swears by himself an oath to an office he never even ran for (Guaido), a guy pushed and supported by foreign countries, is your idea of not being a tyrant?
This whole business is almost laughable, resembling some Marx Brothers’ movie about a made-up country.
But some people do take it seriously, as though Groucho raising his eyebrows and Harpo squeaking his horn were legitimate government.
Of course, as in all such matters, the US has a bottomless pit of money it spends on promoting Groucho and Harpo as serious and legitimate.
Yes, the very folks who never stop whining about Russians doing dastardly things in America’s 2016 election, things they can’t even be bothered to offer proof of.
I guess decent people can at least be glad the US hasn't got jets flying over Caracas dropping cluster bombs and napalm.
But maybe that's coming.
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Response to a comment:
Well, the CIA and the State Department have had a good many years since Chavez’s time to lay sanctions, pull dirty tricks, pay the opposition to conduct terror, and, in general, manipulate the county's affairs.
Again, going back to Chavez, whom the State Department hated from the beginning, Jimmy Carter scrutinized the election mechanics of the country and said they were among the best.
