Sure. I'm not saying that it is well-conceived, or that it will turn out to be a success, or anything like that. I just don't think that there's a parallel with Iraq 2003. There's… (View Post)

Henry VIII was supposedly very anxious about how things would turn out after he was gone. Imagine how he might react to a brief overview of English history in the centuries that followed! But then, m… (View Post)

Yes, that is a fair parallel. The big difference is that US troops aren't occupying Venezuela - a lot of people seem to be acting as though they are - and so a lack of a plan is most likely to l… (View Post)

Not really. One of the big immediate problems in Iraq 2003 was that the invading forces created a huge power vacuum by telling all the police, etc, that the police force was simply abolished. In Vene… (View Post)

You have to remember that the primary system makes the US implementation of FPTP a two-stage process. First you have a public battle on each side for which version of left or right you want, and then… (View Post)