[Sacajaweau]

Bolton is a realist.

The people are defenseless.

All options are on the table. Every administration has said the same thing for each and every "event".

[Biggirl]

Bolton is telling it just like it is. Someone has to.

[mad_as_he$$]

No large group of people is defenseless. There are plenty of rocks around. If you have a rock you can get a knife. If you have a knife you can get a pistol...and so on. You just have to want it bad enough.

[Freedom'sWorthIt]

Agree. Venezuela is in the Western hemisphere. It is a home here to the Russians, the Chinese, and the Cubans. They should not be allowed to gain a foothold here.

It would not take much to defeat Maduro’s regime. At the least we could supply arms to the people who do not have any arms. That would bring a tsunami of criticism from the left and probably from some Republicans....but, IMHO, this option should be taken. Just IMHO.

[ScottinVA]

“The people are defenseless”

Yet time and again, they re-elected those who made them defenseless. Sounds more like they just long for the “heady days” of the Chavez era. Let them sort this out; at the risk of sounding a bit Machiavellian, the longer that country agonizes as a result of socialism the better the case for socialism’s opponents.