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David Weigel | April 11, 2006

David Weigel waves a red flag about Latin American's "swing to the Left."

Comments

|4.11.06 @ 4:01PM|#

Does he also refer to himself in the third person. Sage is kidding, he's only kidding.

David Weigel|4.11.06 @ 4:02PM|#

Indeed, he does.

Jim Henley|4.11.06 @ 4:15PM|#

On the bright side, this gives us (them?) license to talk about Weigel as if he wasn't really here. Of course, we (they?) do that with all the Reason authors anyway.

shoelimpy|4.11.06 @ 4:17PM|#

The new Axis of Evil strikes again.

Jim Henley|4.11.06 @ 4:41PM|#

In a bad case of Kausfiles envy, Unqualified Offerings was written in third person for the first year and a half of its existence. So UO can relate. And it liked Dave's article.

|4.11.06 @ 4:58PM|#

Donald Rumsfeld compared Chavez to Adolf Hitler ("He's a person who was elected legally - just as Adolf Hitler was elected legally")

LOL!
Best
Godwin
Ever

Timothy|4.11.06 @ 5:41PM|#

MK: in real life, yes. From a film I submit, "You know, the Nazis had pieces of flare that they made the Jews wear." From Office Space.

|4.11.06 @ 6:12PM|#

Dave has a very interesting insight at the end of the piece.

Sandy|4.11.06 @ 6:34PM|#

OK, I know it's a silly lefty canard, but it's soooooo tempting to reply to Rumsfeld, "Well, it's a good thing our President stole his election, unlike Hitler, huh?"

fyodor|4.11.06 @ 6:56PM|#

Dave has a very interesting insight at the end of the piece.

With enemies like us, who needs friends?

|4.11.06 @ 7:38PM|#

Except that he isn't. With the exception of Chavez, none of the new left-wing leaders have lived up to their Yanqui-bashing reps.

That's probably because they realize that while xenophobic, populist demagoguery can win them votes, many of those voters will turn on them pretty quickly if the foreign investment and trade that their third-world and middle-income economies need so badly crawls to a halt.

Chavez doesn't have to worry about that issue quite as much, for obvious reasons. Just one more example of the deeply destructive effect that oil wealth can have on a developing nation, both with regards to its domestic and foreign policies.

|4.11.06 @ 8:07PM|#

This is the smartest article and set of blog responses I've read in weeks. Thanks very much.