Thoughts on the current disquiets

[fpb]

Nobody likes war. At the same time, suppose Chavez really carried on with his provocations until he made it inevitable: I think that, unless the Venezuelan Army had a fit of sanity and removed him, its result would delight us. Think for a minute: the Colombian Army, hardened by years of war against the FARC, against the Venezuelans, who have not fought a war in living memory, and insignificant Ecuador. Wouldn't it be nice to see Chavez having to seek refuge in Habana or Harare?

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Better still?

[wemyss.livejournal.com]

See him trying to get to refuge, and not making it.

Re: Better still?

[fpb.livejournal.com]

I don't know that I'm ready for so much evil delight. (Have you seen my anti-Chavez post a few weeks back?)

I can't recall, but I'm sure I agreed with it.

[wemyss.livejournal.com]

Mr Chav(-ez) is one of several world 'leaders' of whom, in the auld Scots phrase, it were better that his neck learnt the weight of his buttocks. (I do NOT believe, that is to say, that hanging is too good for them.)

Re: I can't recall, but I'm sure I agreed with it.

[fpb.livejournal.com]

Nor do I. Tyrants are the one exception to my objection to the death penalty. My concern is rather with the pleasure that seeing him humiliated or destroyed would give me.

To paraphrase Sen Obama....

[wemyss.livejournal.com]

Yes, we Kant?

There's nothing spiritually harmful in rejoicing at the downfall of the wicked, I should say.

here it is

[fpb.livejournal.com]

http://fpb.livejournal.com/273958.html

[goreism.livejournal.com]

I'm told that any war will probably get damped out pretty quickly.

[fpb.livejournal.com]

I think so too. I also think that if it is not, the Venezuelan Army itself will remove Chavez, and likely enough have him "shot while trying to". However, with Chavez one never knows. Remember, this is a man who is seriously trying to promote a conspiracy theory that Simon Bolivar was poisoned, that nobody in two centuries had ever thought of.

[jezreelite.livejournal.com]

Do you ghostwrite Harlequin Romance novels, by any chance?