Here’s what happens when you decide to play “tough-guy” throughout the world. Others decide to play rough back. This is interesting, to be sure. I’m not sure what good it does Iran or Venesuela, but certainly on a symbolic level, it’s a punch in the eye. At what point does the Adminstration figure out that playing hardball all the time leaves you with only playing hardball as a diplomatic tool? If it doesn’t work, you have no other alternatives.
BREITBART.COM - Venezuela Weighs Selling U.S. Jets to Iran
Venezuela is considering selling its fleet of U.S.-made F-16 fighter jets to another country, perhaps Iran, in response to a U.S. ban on arms sales to President Hugo Chavez’s government, a military official said Tuesday.Gen. Alberto Muller, a senior adviser to Chavez, told The Associated Press he had recommended to the defense minister that Venezuela consider selling the 21 jets to another country.
Muller said he thought it was worthwhile to consider “the feasibility of a negotiation with Iran for the sale of those planes.”
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