Source: Washington Post
by Jim Geraghty
“Somehow, the Trump administration’s policy toward Venezuela has managed to combine Tom Clancy’s ‘Clear and Present Danger’ with ‘Dirty Harry,’ ‘Miami Vice’ and the Keystone Cops. Make no mistake, Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro is a bad guy. Saturday, Nobel Peace Prize winner María Corina Machado accurately described Maduro’s policies as effectively declaring ‘war on the Venezuelan people.’ If Maduro were to slip on a banana peel and die, Venezuela would be better off. … But that doesn’t mean that every tool in the U.S. toolbox is the right one, or an effective one, to use when attempting to fix the problem.” (10/21/25)