But the Venezuelan wasn’t finished. Israel’s acts, he said, reminded him of a time when Simon Bolivar had invoked the story of Cain and Abel to talk about an enemy. “Bolivar said that day: ‘God, if you have justice, throw a lightning bolt at the monsters,’ ” Chávez pronounced. “I would say today: ‘God, throw the lightning bolts at the monsters.’ Inshallah .” ~Jackson Diehl, The Washington Post

I don’t suppose this would be a good time to point out that the hilarious Hugo Chavez is one of those peaceful democrats, the sort who have inherent sympathy and goodwill towards all other democracies?  No democratically elected leader would say crazy things about wiping out Jews…oh, wait, there have been a couple.  But no democractically elected leader would say those things about a fellow democracy, because democracies are never hostile to each other…oh, wait, that’s not really true, either.  But “people power” is good, right?  I mean, it’s not as if it empowers egomaniacs who think they’re the second coming of Simon Bolivar!  That would be ridiculous.