[steveegg]

If Iraq is All About The Oil^TM, then why haven't we knocked off this tinpot half-bit dictator that (a) is a lot closer, (b) is a lot weaker and (c) is sitting on oil that actually goes to the US?

[Cincinatus' Wife]

I guess it isn't all about oil. Maybe it's about freedom.

[reformedliberal]

Good point.

It is a lot more about communism and the end of the USA as the only power capable of stopping them. The people of Venezuela, like the Iranians, appear capable of at least giving the dictators enough opposition that we aren't needed at the moment in a large public force. I'll bet there are CIA down there. It will be a lot better, politically, if the Venezuelans can fight their own battle and it will mean a lot more to them, as well.

We are still hearing the outrage from the international Left over the overthrow of Allende (an elected leader...tm).Perhaps we learned something from that.

I think there will be time after the Gulf and PRNK to take on the cartel/communists in South America and the Caribbean.

Eternal vigilance for the rest of our lives, because freedom isn't free.