I had dinner with a three-decade legal resident alien from Venezuela the first art of the week.
He advocated a strategy to eliminate maybe half of the illegal Venezuelan aliens at minimum cost.
“Cut off the head of the snake!” he repeatedly said.
Pretty much everyone believes that Nicolás Maduro stole the election, that it wasn’t even close.
If the United States were willing to use military force to depose Maduro, many, if not most, who have left the country because of the disastrous socialist policies would want to return.
How bad is it there?
“It’s hard to buy gasoline,” he said.
This in one of the most petroleum rich countries in the world.
My friend said the country’s air force consists of one jet from Russia and two from the U.S.
Geography, the capital sits in a bowl with one entrance/exit to the north and one to the south, plus the harbor.
He thinks U.S. Forces could easily take control and allow the installation of the democratically-elected government.
Plane fares would be much cheaper than building a fence, he argued.
The question is whether President Trump would be willing to take the negative publicity such an invasion would garner.
Here is a story about Syrians returning home:
