Hugo Chavez has threatened to cut off oil sales to the US if the Court uphold Exxon's claim against Venezuela

It would cost Venezuela a ton of $$$ to send her oil to anyone else but, why not simply blockade Venezuela and starve Mr. Chavez into submission or removal from power? He is damaging not only our economy but he is destroying Venezuela's while he's at it. Should we not step on this socialist tyrant and solve a lot of everyone's problems?Hugo Chavez has threatened to cut off oil sales to the US if the Court uphold Exxon's claim against Venezuela
Chavez is all bluster. Unfortunately for him, we buy most of his oil and I believe I read in Times Magazine his oil exports counts for 90% of his economy. Let him cut off his oil. Luckily, we diversified enough just for this occasion. If we blockaded his country and not allowed any oil shipments out his government would collapse, and there really isn't anything he could do about it. He couldn't match us militarily and would be forced to come to the bargaining table. I kind of hope he does so he could hasten his collapse.Hugo Chavez has threatened to cut off oil sales to the US if the Court uphold Exxon's claim against Venezuela
We should have had a couple of Marine sharp shooters at the United Nations Meeting in New York in September 2007 when Chavez and Iranian President Ahmadinejed came to the U.S. and taken them both out.We would have saved thousands of lives by doing this justice for the world.
One of the biggest farces is we are fighting in Iraq, and have no control on the nations in our hemisphere, what the hell is our government doing? don't blame Hugo!
Turn a couple of keys, put in a password, push the big red button and actually test a neutron bomb over Venezuela. In a short time the radiation will be gone and we can use the commie oil for free!
I don't think another military operation is very wise at this point. With our forces tired and spread thin, it seems like they wouldn't be keen on opening up another front. We shouldn't be engaging in regime change with leaders that don't like us. There are other ways we can deal with Chavez. First, if you really believe socialism is destined to doom a society, we just have to sit back and watch the country eventually crumble. Second, we can simply dump him and get a new supplier to pick up the slack for oil. I'm sure there are plenty of companies that would like in on the US oil market. We don't need to form a military blockade and validate his claims of US aggression and regime change.
Dude you are so right! It is ridiculous that The president of any country would choose to exercise their sovereignty over their own natural resources. Let Face it the people that Elected Him (in elections that were monitored by the U.S. and other international observers) obviously were a bunch of idiots. I mean what kind of Communists are they? Why would they resort to such capitalist measures as demanding to receive some of the profits of selling their limited resources to a Foreign National Corporation that doesn't even pay taxes or royalties in their country? Do they think that they actually have a right to the oil there?
well you can always do your imperialist crap, but don't go crying after another 9/11