United States Hypocrisy On Venezuela By Jacob G. Hornberger !!
(2019-05-03 at 15:12:16 )

United States Hypocrisy on Venezuela by Jacob G. Hornberger

Like other United States regime-change operations, the current one against the regime of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro is rife with hypocrisy.

After all, what is the main complaint that President Trump and other United States officials have against Maduro??

It is that he is a socialist whose socialist programs and policies have brought misery and suffering to the Venezuelan people. Thus, by initiating a regime-change operation against Maduro, United States officials are portraying themselves as good-hearted, compassionate conservatives who are just trying to help the Venezuelan people.

One big problem with this position, however, is that President Trump and his interventionist cohorts, including such Cold War dead-ender advisers as John Bolton, Elliott Abrams, and Mike Pompeo, are socialists too and embrace socialism here in the United States.

For example, like all other Republicans and Democrats, they support Social Security, Medicare, public (i.e., government) schooling, farm subsidies, and other welfare-state programs, all of which are core elements of Mr. Maduros socialist system in Venezuela.

For that matter, they are also core features of the socialist system in Cuba, where President Trump and his Cold War dinosauric advisers are still obsessed with bringing regime change, notwithstanding more than half-a-century of failure.

Another big problem is that President Trump and his national-security state regime-changers actually love communists, at least those who are deferential to them.

Example: The brutal communist dictator of North Korea, with whom President Trump fell in love on first sight.

Another example: Vietnam, which is ruled by a brutal communist regime. That is where President Trump chose to have his most recent encounter with the North Korean communist dictator with whom he is now so enamored. Vietnam has also been embraced by the Pentagon, notwithstanding the fact that Vietnams communist regime killed more than 58,000 American men during the Vietnam War.

A third big problem is that President Trump, the Pentagon, and the Central Intelligence Agency have knowingly, deliberately, and intentionally added to the misery and suffering of the Venezuelan people with economic sanctions.

In fact, the very idea of sanctions is to target the citizenry of a country with death and impoverishment in the hope that this will encourage the citizenry to revolt, or that it will encourage the Venezuelan military to effect a coup, or that it will encourage Maduro to abdicate.

The fact is that, like with previous regime-change operations, United States officials could not care less about the well-being of the Venezuelan people.

All they care about is ousting Mr. Maduro and replacing him with a pro-United States regime, preferably a military one, one that will bring "order and stability" to the country.

If Venezuelan citizens have to be sacrificed to achieve that goal, so be it. The mindset is that the survivors will be better off for it.

That’ is why United States Ambassador to the United Nations Ms Madeleine Albright stated that the deaths of half-a-million Iraqi children from the sanctions the United States government enforced against Iraq in the 1990s were "worth it."

In other words, no price is too high to pay in terms of the lives of foreign citizens to achieve regime change.

What is the real beef that President Trump, the Pentagon, the Central Intelligence Agency, the National Security Agency, and the Cold War dead-enders have against Maduro??

It is that he, like his predecessor Hugo Chavez, is independent of the United States worldwide military-intelligence empire.

He refuses to take orders from President Trump, the Pentagon, or the Central Intelligence Agency.

He does not defer to them and do what they want.

He does not bend the knee to them.

In fact, like Mr. Chavez, Mr. Maduro is not reluctant to criticize the United States national-security establishment and its policies of foreign interventionism, something that sends United States officials into a rage.

Of course, that is also why they hated Cuban leader Fidel Castro.

No, not because Castro was a communist or a socialist or because they loved the Cuban people but because Castro stood up against the United States and declared Cubas independence from United States control. That is why they went after him. Thatis why they targeted him for assassination.

In his Fourth of July speech to Congress in 1821, John Quincy Adams stated that if the United States of America were ever to abandon its founding foreign policy of non-interventionism, the United States government would begin behaving as a worldwide dictator.

The United States governments regime-change operation against Venezuela is just the most recent confirmation of how astute Mr. Adams was.

Reprinted here with permission from Mr. Jacob G. Hornberger of The Future of Freedom Foundation!! Their Great Website!!