Let Humans Die, but Save Those Caribou!!

A Latin American country need not be taken over by Castro-inspired, Chavez-backed leftists in order to expropriate the property or contractual rights of foreign oil companies. Argentina is doing it. Ecuador is doing it. Bolivia is lost. Peru is next. Can we, or should we, rely on Chile, Colombia, Brazil to be the bulwarks against the entire continent of South America, literally from Tierra del Fuego to Lago Maracaibo, becoming a socialist dictatorship? I doubt we can, nor should we. We can topple the trouble-making Chavez petro-dollar machine without firing a shot. It is good economics, but there is a moral case to be made here. How many lives will we save and keep out of crushing poverty if we stop the socialist, Chavismo movement dead in its tracks? Perhaps millions. We won't be touching any damned caribou in ANWR anyway, but it would be worth a few dead caribou nonetheless to interdict poverty, death and suffering in our own backyard.