Picking up on a theme made by Frank Gaffney here at Big Peace, Mike McDaniel at Pajamas Media is asking why nobody in the mainstream media or the Obama administration seem to be concerned about Iran’s recent shipment of missiles to Hugo Chavez in Venezuela. McDaniel gives us a tour of some of the dangerous weapons involved in the transfer:
The dangers arising from the Marxist, cult-of-personality rule of Venezuelan strongman Hugo Chavez are many. These weapons are only the largest and most destructive purchased or finagled by Chavez. He has also purchased an enormous number of Russian assault rifles — the real thing, fully automatic military rifles, not the non-existent “assault weapons” of gun control imaginations and press releases — and related weapons and ammunition.
Keep in mind that these are only the sales and transfers about which American authorities and the public are aware.
With these weapons, Chavez can dominate the region. The consequences for U.S. and hemispheric security should be obvious to those who care about such things, but again, seem to entirely escape the Obama administration. But there are more direct, immediate threats.
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