War with Venezuela?

My good rightwing friend John Pike brought my attention to a jaw-dropping post from Adam Yoshida, who not only thinks the US may end up at war with Venezuela over the latter's oil supplies, he actively advocates coups, assassination and waging war for oil in South America.

It’s not widely known, but the fourth-largest supplier of crude oil and petroleum products to the United States is Venezuela, which, in 2003, provided a total equal to about ¾’s of that provided by Saudi Arabia. A cut-off of oil supplies from that nation would send already-high oil prices into the stratosphere. Worse still: it’s entirely possible that, thanks to an increasingly-close relationship with China, Venezuela’s leftist President, Hugo Chavez, could cut off exports without harming his own domestic economy. In terms of ability and willingness to cause widespread harm to the United States, Chavez may be the single most dangerous enemy that America has today.

So: what is to be done? The coup, of course, has been the traditional American means for getting rid of Latin American leaders who forget their place in the natural order of things. This was already tried against Chavez in the spring of 2002 and horribly botched.
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I do have one idea. It’s a simple one: a naval blockade combined with air strikes. If the United States can’t have Venezuelan oil, than no one can. A relatively small force of the US Navy would be fully capable of cutting off any oil shipping on the part of Venezuela. US Aircraft, even tactical aircraft based in the Continental United States, would be able to destroy that nation’s air force and then, thereafter, hit at will targets of opportunity. At the same time, the US could work with other nations in the region to deploy forces in order to effect a regime change. Perhaps we might even manage to develop a made-in-Venezuela solution to the problems.
At the same time we must, of course, look for other options, short of war. In particular, we ought to consider the possibility of covert action. Mr. Chavez appears to be the indispensable man in the regime. His assassination ought to become a paramount objective of covert US policy.

As my co-blogger Mr. M would say, can we now pause for a heartfelt cry of "What the F***K?"

But wait, the ending is the most jaw-dropping expression of far rightwing Imperialistic drivel I have ever seen:

The United States needs oil. The United States is the leading superpower in the world. Any nation which attempts to interfere with the American economy is committing an act of economic warfare against this country. It should be the policy of the United States to respond to acts of overt economic warfare with acts of physical warfare. Any nation which attempts to withhold its resources from the United States for the purpose of sabotaging the American economy should be attacked and forced to acknowledge its inferior position.

All boldfaced type is mine, by the way. Mr. Yoshida obviously doesn't feel his insanity is so out beyond the realms of normal as to require boldface. If you have to have the many reasons his rant comprises insanity explained to you, you should probably join him in a padded room. However, feel free to comment on the computer the nice nurses let you have once a week and I will explain them all to you...slowly.