Chavez-Russia Provocation Signals Need for U.S. Moves

President-elect Obama is likely to have shortest and least forgiving learning curve for a new U.S. president in our nation's history. It will be interesting to find out how much of his time and effort will be dedicated to the furthering of his radical social agenda, when our nation's foreign policy affairs will be of such high concern.

The arrival of a Russian naval squadron and anti-submarine aircraft in the Caribbean for exercises with the Venezuelan navy next week will mark Moscow's first significant military deployments in the Western Hemisphere since the resolution of the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962...