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2017-08-12 Caribbean-Latin America

Trump won't rule out 'military option' in Venezuela

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Posted by Fred 2017-08-12 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11126 views ] Top

#1 When was the last time Anyone from "Foreign Powers" thought it was even profitable to rent a hotel room in your once first world, now third world - THEORY?
Listen or collapse in the toilet.

Posted by newc 2017-08-12 01:23|| 2017-08-12 01:23|| Front Page Top

#2 Let them rot, we have no interests there. They have much further to fall before recovery can begin.

Posted by Harcourt Angoluting9366 2017-08-12 01:31|| 2017-08-12 01:31|| Front Page Top

#3 Not our problem, unless the Red Sox can get some of their better farm prospects out of a 'deal'...

Posted by Raj 2017-08-12 01:54|| 2017-08-12 01:54|| Front Page Top

#4 So, war with Venezuela - which is not a threat, and kicking the can down the road with NK? Tell me again about "draining the swamp".

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2017-08-12 03:59|| 2017-08-12 03:59|| Front Page Top

#5 Let Venezuela sort itself out. The Bolivaran economic and political theory has one outcome - state failure. Let them clean up the mess.

Posted by John Frum 2017-08-12 07:45|| 2017-08-12 07:45|| Front Page Top

#6 Earworms for the leftest media, nothing but earworms.

Posted by Besoeker 2017-08-12 07:48|| 2017-08-12 07:48|| Front Page Top

#7 If ever there was a no-win situation, it's Venezuela. It's would be a long hard drag under the best of circumstances for those poor people, and there will be lots around to 'help' things not be best.
Right now, there's nothing to be had but blame. Send food and medical relief deliveries, and stay the hell out.

Posted by ed in texas 2017-08-12 09:26|| 2017-08-12 09:26|| Front Page Top

#8 The only military option Trump should activate against VZL is to mobilize and deploy the first Hollywood Brigade headed by Sean Penn, Slammin' Sammy Jackson and Michael 'Mad Dog' Moore.

They can kill them with kindness & cuddles.

Posted by AlanC 2017-08-12 11:18|| 2017-08-12 11:18|| Front Page Top

#9 Maduro was the official drug lord under Chavez, using military planes with weekly flights to Iran. Evangelical Christianity has sparked a revival in the Latin socialistic empires, fighting for democracy with few resources and fleeing if they can get valid visas. I would think Treasury could dredge up plenty of violations against Maduro and hold the leaders accountable instead of State Dept. sanctions that deprive the public of food, CIA meddling dirty tricks, or drawn into military action we don't want or need. Deploying prayer warriors doesn't require taxpayer dollars or Congressional approval.

Posted by Whavish Thusoling5684 2017-08-12 13:06|| 2017-08-12 13:06|| Front Page Top

#10 Keep them guessing. Make them worry more about us than we worry about them.

Posted by Procopius2k 2017-08-12 13:07|| 2017-08-12 13:07|| Front Page Top

#11 It's not our fight; it's their internal matter. We've got our own problems to sort out.

Posted by JohnQC 2017-08-12 17:59|| 2017-08-12 17:59|| Front Page Top

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