Now, the far right televangelist Pat Robertson is hastily backtracking from his earlier call for the US to murder Hugo Chavez, the Venezuelan strongman. Robertson's fatwa was roundly condemned by all segments of society.
It's interesting that most Americans objected voiciferously to the idea of assassinating a foreign leader who poses no threat to us merely because he's a loudmouthed autocrat, yet they eagerly endorsed full-fledged invasions to overthrow regimes we don't like.
I guess assassination is a less romantic word than liberation.
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