Someone else made this point before I did, but it's worth recording for historical interest.
John McCain once suggested bombing Iran to the Beach Boys' song "Barbara Ann," and suggested that sending tobacco over there would kill Iranians faster.
If this were the candidate for the highest office of any other nation, advocating for death in a second sovereign nation that had not attacked the first, there would be outrage streaming forth from the American media.
Imagine Hugo Chavez getting away with it. Or Correa, Morales, Ortega, or Garcia.
A theory of discourse dependency theory, splitting us into the core and periphery?
This is a good time to post a link to the Venezuelan Sunday Extended Monologue.
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