Iraq and Venezuela: One as Tragedy, Another as Farce

Image by Levi Meir Clancy.

The invasion of Venezuela we’ve just witnessed brings to mind the two invasions of Iraq—under George H. W. Bush in 1990 and George W. Bush in 2003. The first was flagrantly about oil. The second was more insidious.

In a reactionary response to 9/11, the United States invaded Iraq nearly two years later, allegedly to combat terrorism through regime change despite evidence that the perps of the atrocity were elsewhere. The rationale for the operation was...