Chavez tarnishes himself

With this tweet:

1209: Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez tweets: “Long live Libya and its independence! Gaddafi faces a civil war!”

The idea that the protestors are the unwitting dupes (or even overt tools) of colonialism sounds a lot like what Saif Qaddafi said in his own weird speech. But I don’t see what “Libya’s independence” has to do with the kleptocratic thugs who rule Libya and the butchering mercenaries they hire with their oil profits.

The Left is capable of grave errors of judgment as well, and let’s not forget that. Chavez’s tweet is a sample. Perhaps it’s not just neo-liberalism that needs to rethink things right now.