I am so glad to read a rare sane commentator of the Left writing that Chavez is tarnishing the Left's reputation by hanging out with Islamic-fascist tyrants like Ahmadinejab. We who dissociate ourselves from such an association with reactionaries are , unfortunaely ,a smalll minority within the Left. And that is why I also rarely attend or read any left publications anymore (like The Nation or Counterpunch). The mainstream media , however, are no better.
- Marco
January 12, 2012 8:31 PM EST
Cheers Marco, you are absolutely right. Nikolas
- Nikolas Kozloff
January 14, 2012 8:58 AM EST
While relationships between the socialist presidents in Latin America and Iran should be denounced, it's simply a product of these countries being increasingly isolated and attacked by the US and Western Europe, so they have no where else to go.
- John Durandal
January 14, 2012 10:40 AM EST
No one is 100% morally pure. But at this point, knowing what we now know about Ahmadinejad, rolling out the red carpet for him is beyond the pale.
- Nikolas Kozloff
January 14, 2012 11:57 AM EST
I agree to an extent, but that's what you get when your biggest potential trading partners organize coups and strikes against you, you get paranoid and go for whoever will trade with you. If you don't want these Latin American countries to trade with Iran, trade with them fairly.
- John Durandal
January 14, 2012 12:03 PM EST
If you want to trade, then go ahead [although, I don't think it's entirely necessary to trade with Iran in particular]. The thing is, the relations go much deeper into the political realm and that is very unfortunate.
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