Quote of the Day
Perhaps, the most surreal conversation I had was not hearing a Chavista president singing capitalism’s praise, or friends who have been out of the country for eight years finally looking for a flight to Caracas; but a European diplomat who, after a long pause, told me: “At least for now, we’ve got to admit that Trump got this one right.”
Stefano Pozzebon
CNN
February 17, 2026
I’ve covered Venezuela for a decade. But this US visit was like nothing I’ve seen before
CNN (AKA Clinton News Network and Communist News Network) saying “Trump got this one right?”
Wow! I wonder how many responses they got from their main body of readers demanding Pozzebon’s head on a platter. That had to have really hurt.
While I reluctantly acknowledge it was probably (let’s see how things are a year from now) the right thing to do, I’m uncomfortable with the U.S. being the world’s policeman. There is also the whole, other than might makes right, lack of authorization to use violence to affect the internal affairs of another country. Then there is the issue that while success is good, failures can really, really bad. This turned out well but a future attempt at a similar action (my bet is Iran would be the next target) could result in a catastrophe such as, or even worse than, what happened with Operation Eagle Claw in April of 1980.
“There is also the whole, other than might makes right, lack of authorization to use violence to affect the internal affairs of another country.”
We had a very specific “in” in that case – he was the head of a criminal organization doing lots of crime *inside* the US.
Even Khomeini would really not have something similar – targeting Americans as part of a *political* strategy between sovereigns is simply not the same thing.
That said…
“I’m uncomfortable with the U.S. being the world’s policeman.”
Me, too, but the world sucks much less when *someone* does it. The era of the British Empire is over… who would you like to fill the slot? Because we got a very mild preview of “no one at all filling the slot” with the previous administration, and that was already quite horrible enough, thanks.
The “Monroe/Donroe doctrine” is all fine and good. For we should be about the business of killing communism and islame. Especially in our hemisphere.
Even though that sounds contradictory to what I was telling Deoxy in the last post.
This is how I see it.
America had an opportunity to rule by example after WWII. Instead we allowed greed and amorality to rule us. Thus it became the model for the rest of the world.
America was an absolute juggernaut of industrial might. With a Christian ethic to backstop that might. Something honorable for the world to follow.
But now were as corrupt as the most base of dictatorships.
Rotted to the core. We produce little, and export mostly inflation. And go around the world with hubris in all we do.
We have gutted ourselves to the point we could be collapsed in a matter of hours by our enemies we actually paid to come here.
Doing the bidding of some of the worst God ever allowed to walk the face of the earth.
Should we fight islame? Certainly. But first we should secure our supply lines by getting rid of it on our own soil.
I once posited; “Why did we need to go fight communism in Vietnam, when they were only 200 miles south of us in Cuba?”
And after the “missile crisis”, truly deserved an ass kicking.
Communism and islame truly needed to be put out of their misery.
But first they have to be put out of our country.
Peace and fair trade are good and honorable things that we can and should work to bring the whole world.
Trying to do that with the enemy in our middle of us is suicide.
Which is exactly what islame and communism want us to commit.
They would rather take us over and enslave us. Barring their ability to do that? They will collapse us.
I just can’t help but think Trump and all the evil of this world know that.
And planned accordingly.