Rich Lowry

So we're not doing anything of that nature in Venezuela.

So it's a combination of extremely, in the word that's been used so much about it, audacious operation with a high degree of caution or trying to minimize downside risk as well.

Yeah, but I think even harder than that, because Osama bin Laden has some security, but not the security that comes with being a head of state.

And also, this wasn't a shock, right?

Bin Laden didn't know we were coming.

Maduro knew we were coming, probably, or there's a high chance that we would at some point.

And still, this was so highly proficient.

And it does send a good message to China and other malefactors around the world.

Now, China has a big, huge military.

Taking on China would be nothing like this.

Obviously, but China hasn't done a military operation since 1979 when they lost a border war with Vietnam.

So they have to be highly aware of just how good and practiced we are at this.

Yeah, maybe there's a little something to that, but they're going after Taiwan no matter what.

We could be the most high-minded, moralistic foreign policy imaginable.

Woodrow Wilson on steroids, and China's still going after Taiwan.

Taiwan.

I do think there's a moral difference here, right?

I think a sovereign people have the right to govern themselves, but Venezuelans weren't covering themselves because this guy stole an election and was a dictator.

And now perhaps we'll get a new election.

They'll actually actually have a chance to govern themselves.