{"id":35991,"date":"2019-04-30T21:04:39","date_gmt":"2019-05-01T01:04:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=35991"},"modified":"2019-04-30T21:04:39","modified_gmt":"2019-05-01T01:04:39","slug":"will-solving-the-immediate-problem-actually-accomplish-anything","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=35991","title":{"rendered":"Will Solving The Immediate Problem Actually Accomplish Anything?"},"content":{"rendered":"

A website called nffonline.com<\/a> notes:<\/p>\n

\u2018Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.\u2019 (George Santayana-1905). <\/i>In a 1948 speech to the House of Commons, Winston Churchill changed the quote slightly when he said (paraphrased), \u2018Those who fail to learn from history are condemned to repeat it.\u2019<\/i><\/strong><\/p>\n

Today Venezuela was rocked by violence as opposition leader Juan Guaid\u00f3 attempted to revive his movement to seize power in Venezuela.<\/p>\n

The Associated Press<\/a> is reporting today:<\/p>\n

The violent street battles that erupted in parts of Caracas were the most serious challenge yet to Maduro\u2019s rule. Still, the rebellion, dubbed \u201cOperation Freedom,\u201d seemed to have garnered only limited military support.<\/strong><\/p>\n

In one dramatic incident during a chaotic day, several armored vehicles plowed into a group of anti-government demonstrators trying to storm the capital\u2019s air base, hitting at least two protesters.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Russia has troops in Venezuela as does Cuba. The Monroe Doctrine applies to the Russian involvement; it doesn’t cover the Cuban involvement. So should America get involved, to what degree, and how? Well, let’s look at history. I can’t think of any incidence where we have been involved in an overthrow of a government (no matter how tyrannical) and had a positive outcome. The only positive examples that you might be able to come up with would be Germany, Italy, and Japan (World War II). That was an entire world-wide war–not the overthrow of a country’s government. We have no history of replacing dictatorships with democracies and having everyone live happily ever after.<\/p>\n

But for the sake of argument, let’s look at how American involvement that put Juan Guaid\u00f3 in charge would change things. The generals in Venezuela are involved with the drug cartels that ship drugs into America through Mexico. Until we deal with the drug problem on our southern border, the corruption in the Venezuela military will continue. Can a country exist as a free country with a corrupt military that is working with the drug cartels?<\/p>\n

We are back again to seeing the impact of a porous southern border that allows drugs to flow into our country and drug lords make enormous sums of money sending those drugs into our country. Unless we take the market away from the military generals in Venezuela and the drug cartels, any move we make to bring freedom to Venezuela will be in vain.<\/p>\n

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A website called nffonline.com notes: \u2018Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.\u2019 (George Santayana-1905). In a 1948 speech to the House of Commons, Winston Churchill changed the quote slightly when he said (paraphrased), \u2018Those who fail … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[322,7208,305,4849,12098,418,1083,306,3598],"class_list":["post-35991","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-associated-press","tag-caracas","tag-cuba","tag-freedom","tag-juan-guaido","tag-mexico","tag-russia","tag-venezuela","tag-winston-churchill"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35991","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35991"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35991\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35992,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35991\/revisions\/35992"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}