Foreign affairs
2014-02-24 17:23:07.046266+01 by Dan Lyke 0 comments
The situation in Venezuela has sent me off reading a whole bunch of articles trying to figure out what's happening down there. Looks like Chavez sold out the country's future for votes, but it's also clear that there aren't too many good guys in the story.
Anyway, one of the articles I read was the Wikipedia article on the 2002 Venezuelan coup d'état attempt, which notes that it's heavily disputed, but in that and some other articles following-up, one thing struck me: I understand that the U.S. has chosen to take a place in world politics where we're meddling in, but do the CIA and the State Department have to be so fucking incompetent in their response plans when they're called out on this?
It's like kindergarteners caught with their hands in the cookie jar and blaming it on the dog.