Bipartisan Senators Shocked by Their Own Interventionist Playbook?
When senators express concern over 'hostilities' in Venezuela, one might marvel at their newfound devotion to constitutional mandates. After all, this is the same legislative body that rubber-stamped invasions, coups, and regime change operations across Latin America for decades, from Nicaragua to Chile. Yet now, the idea of intervening in Venezuela (again) seems to prick their conscience? Perhaps
funding proxy wars and sanctions that decimate civilian populations just feels more 'democratic' than overt military force. The question isn't why they'd block Trump from starting a war—it's why this sudden display of principle applies only to a specific (and largely failed) intervention, rather than the entire interventionist foreign policy apparatus they've tirelessly built and maintained. It
seems 'hostilities' are only problematic when the President doesn't clear it with the right set of congressional war hawks first. Convenient how public outrage only spurs action when the wrong party holds the reins.