"And yet, today, in his second term as president, he finds himself presiding over a military debacle that is quite reminiscent of Bush's. Trump ordered a military intervention to remove an antagonistic foreign leader, based on a flimsy argument of national security, with the goal of accessing that country's oil. In both cases, we see a naive confidence that the United States can simply achieve its goals through regime change."
"The most important distinguishing feature of the operation in Venezuela is its lack of an overarching vision. On Saturday after Trump finished an hour-long news conference alongside his secretaries of defence and state, it was not clear what the plan was for Venezuela going forward, or if there was a plan at all. His statements threatening more attacks in the following days brought no clarity either."
Donald Trump publicly criticised the Iraq war before becoming president, yet in his second term he presides over a military debacle reminiscent of that conflict. He ordered an intervention to remove an antagonistic foreign leader using a flimsy national-security rationale and aiming to access the country's oil. That action reflects naive confidence that the United States can achieve objectives through regime change, paralleling the Iraq invasion. The Venezuela operation lacks an overarching vision; after a lengthy news conference it remained unclear what the plan for Venezuela was or whether any coherent plan existed. Threats of further attacks provided no operational clarity.
Read at www.aljazeera.com
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