Comment by rayiner
7 days ago
> You're doing the "But what about Obama?!"
I’m not. My point is that the ordinary rule accepted by most people, especially the mass media, is that the government doesn’t provide public evidence for military actions. So when the New York Times complains that “there is no evidence” here it seems like special pleading.
Given that it was used as justification for regime change ("Venezuela is sending fentanyl and killing Americans!!") then I'd say the pleading should be special.
We were talking about the strikes on the drug boats. Those are just being justified in terms of them being drug boats. Those are limited stakes.
If you want to expand the point to include Maduro’s regime more generally, there’s a lot of evidence of what he’s done.