The Garbled Epoch

"ROBERTSON: There was a popular coup that overthrew him [Chavez]. And what did the United States State Department do about it? Virtually nothing. And as a result, within about 48 hours that coup was broken; Chavez was back in power, but we had a chance to move in. He has destroyed the Venezuelan economy, and he's going to make that a launching pad for communist infiltration and Muslim extremism all over the continent.

You know, I don't know about this doctrine of assassination, but if he thinks we're trying to assassinate him, I think that we really ought to go ahead and do it. It's a whole lot cheaper than starting a war. And I don't think any oil shipments will stop. But this man is a terrific danger and the United ... This is in our sphere of influence, so we can't let this happen. We have the Monroe Doctrine, we have other doctrines that we have announced. And without question, this is a dangerous enemy to our south, controlling a huge pool of oil, that could hurt us very badly. We have the ability to take him out, and I think the time has come that we exercise that ability. We don't need another $200 billion war to get rid of one, you know, strong-arm dictator. It's a whole lot easier to have some of the covert operatives do the job and then get it over with."

Many Latino news reports are calling Robertson a "ultraconservative religious leader" and are obviously in an uproar about the comments said last Monday. But what are American's saying. What is the left saying and what is the right saying? What are you to take away from this?

Robertson recently today released this statement saying that he really didn't mean that we should assassinate Chavez.

"I didn't say 'assassination.' I said our special forces should 'take him out.' And 'take him out' can be a number of things, including kidnapping; there are a number of ways to take out a dictator from power besides killing him. I was misinterpreted by the AP [Associated Press], but that happens all the time,"

That is true, Robertson has been misinterpreted by the AP on a few occasions including the 2003 spat about when some people thought that Robertson was asking Christians to pray for some of the supreme judges to retire. Many thought he was asking people to pray that they would get sicker, many questioned his interpretations on our judicial system but all in all, he was simply saying that there were judges getting to a point where they could no longer function in a judicial capacity.

So we know that Robertson has been misinterpreted before but what about this time? I don’t really know if he can back out of this one. All I do know is that as a Christian, he shouldn’t have said the first part of that controversial statement. The whole “You know, I don't know about this doctrine of assassination, but if he thinks we're trying to assassinate him, I think that we really ought to go ahead and do it.” statement might be true, but you know what? He’s a televangelist first, a politician second. This places Christians in a bad light. If maybe he had worded it differently, done something to suggest it might have only been a joke etc… but no, there’s almost no way around that statement.

Sure, Chavez might not be the greatest thing for Venezuela, but really do we have to run the entire world? Do we have to become so active in the world, that if we see a political leader that might be trouble for us we “take him out”? Thank God that the Bush Administration is backing away from these statements. The left would have a field day with that kind of material.

My finishing note is this. Muslims and Communisms together!?!?!!? Where the heck does he get that from!? Communism is strictly against religion because in a perfect society religion isn’t necessary because that illumined perfect state is already there. So that statement kind of made me laugh. Yet, that combination would be kind of scary.

All in all very interesting how everyone is jumping down his throat.

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