by Sarah Anderson, PJ Media:
On Tuesday, Marco Rubio sat down for an interview with Sean Hannity. As you can imagine, Venezuela was a hot topic. Hannity asked if we’re on the verge of conflict.
Rubio responded by saying, “No… what the President has authorized is a counter-drug mission in the region.” He then went on to explain that Nicolás Maduro’s regime is not a legitimate government, but a narco-terrorist organization. Oh, and it’s providing terrorist organizations from the Middle East with a safe space here in our own backyard as well.
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He added, “In addition to that, the Venezuelan regime is a source of instability in the entire region. Over 8 million Venezuelans have flooded into neighboring countries as a result of the regime’s activities within their own country, including into the United States. They also happen to be the foothold of Iran. That’s not spoken about enough. Iran, its IRGC, and even Hizballah has a presence in South America, and one of their anchor presence – especially for the Iranians – is inside of Venezuela. So we just finished talking about Iran and the hostility it has towards the United States. Where they have planted their flag in our hemisphere is on Venezuelan territory, with the full and open cooperation of that regime.”
I’d also add that the Maduro regime is inviting China and Russia into our hemisphere and propping up Cuba, but you get the idea. It’s a problem with a semi-simple solution. The people of that country voted overwhelmingly for a president last summer, and he’s sitting in Europe in exile with a strong plan for the first 100 days after Maduro falls, waiting to take over. We’ve got allies in the region who are ready to help and support any action we take.
But Democrats who have become awfully mouthy about it lately don’t seem to care. If Donald Trump is in favor of it, they are not.
“Until the President decided to do something about it, no one disputed that Maduro was in the drug trafficking business. No one,” Rubio pointed out. “Now that he’s doing something about it, you have all these people on the left and others that are coming out, saying, well, it’s not true, and it hasn’t been proven. We have an indictment by a grand jury – not by politicians — by a grand jury in the Southern District of New York that indicted him and a bunch of people in the regime. So that’s what’s important to point out here.”
