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By W.J. Hennigan

Mr. Hennigan writes about national security issues for Opinion from Washington.

Over the past four months, President Trump and his cabinet members offered a meandering list of vague and at times conflicting explanations why the administration was amassing warships, attack planes and thousands of military personnel off the coast of Venezuela.

It was about drug smuggling (despite the fact that little........

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