Waltz Says No Venezuelan Occupation, Just 'Law Enforcement' Raids
Bloomberg quotes then-US ambassador to the UN, Mike Waltz, assuring us that Trump didn't want to 'occupy' Venezuela. He clarified that the special forces raid to 'capture' Nicolas Maduro was merely a 'law enforcement operation.' This linguistic gymnastics would be laughable if the historical record weren't so grim. Remember when the 1989 invasion of Panama to oust Noriega was framed as 'Operation
Just Cause'? Or the 1983 Grenada invasion, a 'rescue mission'? The US has a long, storied tradition of re-branding regime change as something less imperialistic. Calling a military assault on another country's leadership a 'law enforcement operation' is like calling a full-scale invasion a 'neighborhood watch meeting.' One might wonder how many other nations would appreciate foreign special forces
conducting 'law enforcement' on their soil. It's a thinly veiled attempt to sanitize blatant interference, echoing decades of US foreign policy in Latin America where 'democracy promotion' often meant installing friendly dictators.