Venezuela Will Pay For Its Own Reconstruction – OpEd |
When George W. Bush and his team invaded Iraq, ostensibly about weapons of mass destruction (something like drugs with Venezuela), their claim was that the country would pay for its own reconstruction with its oil revenue. They assured us that US troops (a.k.a. “boots on the ground”) would be welcomed with flowers. It didn’t quite work out that way.
Almost a quarter century later, we still have some US troops in Iraq. Over 3,000 US soldiers were killed in Iraq, tens of thousands more were injured, afterPresident Bush famously declared “mission accomplished.” The cost of the war and subsequent occupation was over $1 trillion in today’s dollars.
Trump assures that things will turn out better this time because unlike his predecessors, he is smart. The evidence of his intelligence is that he claims to have passed tests for dementia three times. The rest of us are not terribly assured that Trump’s doctors felt it necessary to test for dementia on three different occasions, even if he did pass.
Anyhow, it seems Trump is too old to........