Chavez and Russia

Okay, so nobody is paying attention right now. I read four different major news sources. Of those sources, I found this story only on Fox News this morning. It seems that Russia is increasing their relations with Venezuela politically, economically and militarily. Chavez is, of course, all for this because he is a Hitleresque kind of personality. Nonetheless, nobody seems to care, based on the fact that we have heard nothing out of Washington (perhaps Bush doesn't want to speak out against his buddy) and barely saw any coverage in the news. I think this is very important. This morning, Fox News is reporting that Russia and Venezuela are in talks to have Russia assist in the development of peaceful nuclear power for Venezuela. While I'm a proponent of nuclear power and think it should be used more throughout the world, especially in the developing world, everyone who believes a deluded dictator like Chavez would use this power peacefully, stand up and shout. Right, I don't think so either. Nonetheless, a nuclear Venezuela would be a huge threat to its neighbors, Brazil and Colombia specifically and even a threat to us. Those illegal rockets we found in Iraq would be all Chavez needs to launch a small nuclear device into the United States. I guess the curse of living in interesting times is that the greatest threats get ignored while our government spends time bickering over legislation that may or may not do anything to actually help the economy and is certainly a betrayal of free market ideals.