XPost: talk.politics.misc, alt.fan.rush-limbaugh   
   From: NoBody@nowhere.com   
      
   On Sat, 3 Jan 2026 12:53:14 -0000 (UTC), bks@panix.com (Bradley K.   
   Sherman) wrote:   
      
   >>> | John Mearsheimer: Well, I think what the administration is   
   >>> | trying to do here is figure out a way to get out of the   
   >>> | corner that they've boxed themselves into in this Venezuela   
   >>> | situation. I mean, we decided early on that we were going   
   >>> | to get tough with Venezuela that it was this great threat   
   >>> | to the United States and that we would be able to deal with   
   >>> | it rather easily. But that's not proved to be the case at all.   
   >   
   >Now what?  Another attempt at regime-change-by-force?  That   
   >trick never works.   
   >   
   >    --bks   
      
      
   Do you ever get tired of being wrong?   
      
   "US special forces have captured Nicolás Maduro in a daring helicopter   
   raid on the capital of Venezuela.   
      
   Donald Trump said the dictator and his wife had been detained in a   
   “brilliant operation” that began with air strikes and saw Black Hawks   
   and Chinooks flying low across Caracas.   
      
   Both had been indicted in New York within hours of the operation,   
   charged with narco-terrorism and possession of machine guns.   
      
   “They will soon face the full wrath of American justice on American   
   soil in American courts,” Pam Bondi, the US attorney general said."   
      
   https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/us-bombs-venezuela-captures-   
   aduro-110250024.html   
      
   Done.   
      
   Laughter!   
      
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