How professional La-Z-Boy pundits see the world
As David Benzion points out, the Chronicle editorial board gets two shots per day to offer its opinion about any topic in the world. Today, Benzion notes, one of those slots is devoted to slapping down a junior prosecutor in "bad guy" Chuck Rosenthal's office.
The other slot is devoted to advising Americans how to respond to Venezuela strongman Hugo Chavez's latest antics:
The United States must respond to Chavez's provocations, particularly when they involve violating diplomatic immunity, but a restrained response would be best. Now that elections in Brazil, Bolivia and Peru have drawn Latin America leftward, the United States needs to redouble its engagement there, rising above insults and showing consistent concern for our neighbors and their democracies. U.S. businesses operating in Latin America also have a vital role to play by being good, civic-minded employers and environmental stewards.
Hugo Chavez has already seized assets of foreign companies, Bolivia's Evo Morales has announced plans to nationalize the hydrocarbon industry, and the Chronicle editorial board's advice is to be a good employer and a good steward of the environment?
To quote Benzion responding to today's other editorial, oookay.
Posted by Kevin Whited @ 04/11/06 07:49 AM | Print | Comments (0)
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