Gordon Carrera

for the tunes that they played.

Someone has put it together.

And it's great because they've got some... They've got Welcome to the Jungle by Guns N' Roses.

They've got Panama by Van Halen.

Very, very apt.

I think All I Want Is You by U2.

So I think whoever was doing... And I think it was someone in Southern Command for the US military.

Whoever was doing the playlist was clearly trying to find funny song titles, which they could also blare loudly at Noriega, who it turns out was an opera lover and hated...

rock music to try and get him out, but eventually it works.

That's a kind of wild way of doing a capture operation.

Yeah.

Which I think goes back to the point we made right at the start of this two-part series, which is the operation itself

was flawlessly executed and incredibly effective at doing what it wanted to do.

But where it leads to and what happens next is much less clear.

And I think that's where the tricky bit comes because it's one thing to carry out that operation, but until you know what's going to replace Maduro, until you understand the consequence of it, it's a lot hard to say that the overall outcome

policy is a success.

And I think that's perhaps where we should end up, is where does this new doctrine and new policy take us?

Yeah, I think that's right.

I mean, to some extent, the Russians are already trying to do that, and they tried to do it in Ukraine.

So it's not like they could be more emboldened, but they might see it as an opening.