When he resigned from the Government in the run up to the Iraq war Robin Cook said this:
"Iraq probably has no weapons of mass destruction in the commonly understood sense of the term." The British people, he concluded "do not doubt that Saddam is a brutal dictator, but they are not persuaded he is a clear and present danger to Britain". And he felt unable to give his backing to "a war that has neither international agreement or domestic support". (Turner, A. 2022)
It strikes me that there are close parallels between the action against Iraq in 2003 and Venezuela this weekend by President Trump.
Is there a clear and present danger to the American people in Maduro? Unequivocally no.
Does Trump's entanglement have international agreement? With the seeming exceptions of a few country's equivocations, no.
Does it have domestic support? Only time will tell.
Trump's actions were about regime change, something that failed in Iraq and failed in Afghanistan. He's going to be leaving a very big bill and lots of bodybags for the next guy, isn't he?