John Bolton was dead wrong about Venezuela, and Trump was right

In his own version of how it happened, Bolton never stopped to assess the very complex target — a hardened criminal regime, not just another tropical dictator. If he ever asked the intelligence community to do its job, he might have realized that the strategy was a ruse served up by Maduro’s Cuban handlers. (Or he might have discovered an intelligence community utterly doubled-up by Cuban intelligence.) Instead, Bolton and senior advisers ruled out the use of force without weighing options for posing a credible threat and without informing the commander-in-chief who had sought such options expressly and repeatedly. By Roger F. Noriega. Full Text -> Washington Examiner

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