A "Cuban Missile Crisis" for Obama?

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"When I was twelve, I helped my daddy build a bomb shelter in our basement because some fool parked a dozen warheads 90 miles off the coast of Florida."~ Skip Tyler, The Hunt For Red October. Back in '62 Prs. Kennedy faced the biggest showdown of his short administration... one of the biggest showdowns of foreign relations the US ever faced. The Soviet Union was arming Cuba with nuclear missiles... and the US wasn't going to just sit by and let hit happen. Today, there is no Soviet Union and the Cold War is over. Russia and the US enjoy a precarious, but basically fruitful relationship. But is it any more friendly to park a few boatloads of tanks and missiles in a nation whose leader, Hugo Chavez considers the United States an enemy? This isn't just rhetoric or extremism here. When his troops train, they do it with the United States as the enemy. He has instructed his military leaders to prepare for war with the US. So, is Chavez and Russia merely entering into a mutually beneficial business arrangemen? Or does Obama have a real crisis on his hands here?