Does that include Cubans?"My belief is we will, in fact, be greeted as liberators."--Dick Cheney on Iraq, Meet the Press, 3/16/02. . . and that did in fact prove true. Welcomed by some as liberators. But detested by the Hussein regime, which had a secret police cum terrorist infrastructure in place.The question is whether the commies can sustain a terror campaign which would exhaust the democratic republicans.
You understand, I’m sure, that the American Revolution was conducted by 1/3 of Americans with the help of the French government, against the British and the 1/3 of Americans who were Tories. The other 1/3 of Americans were on the sidelines.
If in fact Venezuelans have lost a lot of weight and are starving, it should be easy to get at least half of them on board just with plentiful free cheese. There are probably enough able-bodied Venezuelans out-of-country to do the Bay of Pigs right, with American air power and smart bombs instead of JFK’s wimp out.
Those considerations are weighing on the minds of Maduro et. al. right now, or he wouldn't be so cautious about his initial declaration that the American Embassy personnel are persona non grata, in the face of blowback from the US Secretary of State. Best case, the US gets Maduro and his henchmen to go to exile, and the Cubans go back to Cuba. That wouldn’t be likely, tho, if the US took its options off the table.
My neighbors down at the end of the block went bankrupt. Word is, he had a gambling problem and made a lot of bad decisions. House went up as a foreclosure. It seems like his wife didn’t rise up and divorce him.
You know what I didn’t do? I didn’t kick down their front door, shoot the Dad, find them a new man to run their house, and pay all their bills.
Just like Jesus, sometimes I speak in parables.