Should Venezuelan dictator Hugo Chavez be engaged? Or isolated? Presidential candidates debated this question in Florida last week

Obama says we should meet with Hugo Chavez to work out our difference. Obama also says that Hugo Chavez should be isolated because he supports terrorist forces like FARC. Confused yet? Should Venezuelan dictator Hugo Chavez be engaged? Or isolated? Presidential candidates debated this question in Florida last week ... Make that a presidential candidate debated this with himself in Florida last week. Sen. Barack Obama took both positions on successive days. Mr. Obama told Walter Pacheco of the Orlando Sentinel last Thursday he’d personally meet with Mr. Chavez: “One of the obvious high priorities in my talks with President Hugo Chavez would be the fermentation of anti-American sentiment in Latin America, his support of (Marxist narco-terrorists) FARC in Colombia, and other issues he would want to talk about,” Sen. Obama said then. “It is important to understand that ignoring these countries has not led to improved behavior on their part and it has not served our national security interests.”