Monroe Doctrine Redux?
For an administration that’s called isolationist, it sure gets around.
When President Barack Obama decided to go abroad and kill an American citizen, not one charter member of the Democrat-media complex raised their hand—except to clap.1
The cacophony of cheers then stand in stark contrast today to the handwringing of Obamaphiles over the Trump administration taking out socialist strong man Nicolas Maduro in narco-state Venezuela.
Indeed, the hypocrisy is almost too much to bear considering the foreign military adventures during the Clinton-Obama-Biden era. From Somalia to Bosnia-Herzegovina to Libya to Syria to Ukraine—none of which posed a direct threat to American security.2
To be sure, the Bush-Cheney administration’s ‘war on terror’ would set the standard for reckless interventionism via a unitary executive. The inevitable blowback in Afghanistan, Iraq and Syria created a cadre of critics on both sides of the aisle, chief among them, Donald Trump.
So it seems incumbent on America First-types to acknowledge that “a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires they should declare the causes which impel them” to invade a place like Venezuela, albeit a state-sponsor to a drug trafficking conspiracy.3
We can begin with the good, the bad and maybe, the ugly.
