There will be more thoughtful columns on the site today — like Jim’s above — concerning the prosecution of our raid on Venezuela and the capture of Nicolás Maduro. Nonetheless, I feel the need to note that when the U.S. and her military get to feeling frisky, there isn’t much anyone, anywhere, can do about it, and the bad actors of the world should thank their lucky stars we have as many political, structural, and ethical checks on foreign intervention as we do.

I grew up in the wane of the Global War on Terrorism when, after the invasion of Iraq and the ensuing embarrassments, we no longer felt that we were a moral actor. The........

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