Power line notes this:

“There is nothing surprising, of course, about the secular socialist from Venezuela making common cause with religious fanatics from halfway around the world. Tyrants have always worked together when it suits their purposes; they always understand one another, since they are more or less alike.”

. . . which should put to rest the notion that secular facists couldn’t possibly make common cause with religious zealots, an assertion that once was made to persuade us that there could be no connection between Saddam and al Qaeda.

Oh well . . .

Brian