Trump Rolls the Dice on Nation-Building

“After an audacious overnight operation that captured Venezuelan strongman Nicolás Maduro and removed him from power, President Trump on Saturday embraced an open-ended nation-building effort of a kind he once said he would avoid,” the Wall Street Journal reports.

“Trump said the U.S. would run Venezuela, a Latin American country of 29 million people with a faltering economy, for an indefinite period.”

Said Trump: “We’re going to run it, essentially, until a proper transition takes place.”