Monroe Doctrine in Action?

Going out on a limb, could there be any correlation between Chavez winning the referendum in Venezuela, with the U.S. backed opposition vowing to contest the result and Bush beginning the return of 70,000 troops from Germany and South Korea, many to the U.S?

Going out on a limb, could there be any correlation between Chavez winning the referendum in Venezuela, with the U.S. backed opposition vowing to contest the result and Bush beginning the return of 70,000 troops from Germany and South Korea, many to the U.S? Already there is outcry that moving troops back to the U.S. would not address the overseas needs of the war on freedom of thought terror, NATO obligations and the ever tense North Korean issue.

Is this a strategic move instead to in the future (say 2006 when Chavez will come up for election again) create some larger scale Haitian/Panamanian/Granadian redux? While I myself doubt the referendum is causal – the proximity in time of the two events is too close – it certainly can’t hurt the Monroe doctrine planning of the whitehouse (paraphrasing: “the U.S. has the sole right to dictate policy to the rest of the Americas”). Remember, the U.S. imports most of it’s oil from Venezuela, not the middle east…