I am so confused about the not-war with Venezuela.
We’ve killed 110 “narco -terrorists” supposedly delivering drugs to America in open bow boats with outboard motors across hundreds of miles of open ocean. We didn’t arrest them or charge them or try them in a court of law.
So why didn’t they just shoot and kill President Maduro and his wife on sight if they are the leaders of that very same “narco-terrorist” network? Why do they get the benefit of the American system of justice while 110 other Venezuelans were deprived of the same justice?
We are charging Maduro with the same drug trafficking and gun charges that the former president of Honduras actually, already was found guilty of, but who President Trump pardoned last month. Pardoned for the same crimes. Wh-Wh-What? This isn’t a war because only Congress can send us to war, yet we are going to send an occupying force to take control of another country? Until they are “free.” Didn’t we learn anything from our time in Viet Nam or Afghanistan?
Finally, I’m not sure where all the money needed to occupy Venezuela is going to come from. It can’t be cheap.
Congress passed the " Big, Beautiful Bill," which already increased the national debt by a record amount after cutting insurance subsidies for millions of Americans. Since then President Trump has promised billions in aid to Brazil, billions to farmers hurt by the tariffs, $1,776 to every military service member, millions for creating savings accounts for babies born during his term, and a couple thousand back to each taxpayer. And started building a $400 million ballroom. None of it in that beautiful bill.
So it just seems like it would have been nice to discuss this before we created a not-war first, like I thought Congress or one of their sub-committees would have done.
Donald Carper, Clearfield
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