Teddy Roosevelt Would Be Proud of Trump’s Venezuela Move

It’s not difficult to find analogues for Donald Trump’s incursion into Venezuela — because they are littered throughout 20th-century American history.

Trump’s operation was as American as Henry Cabot Lodge saying that, however unformed it might be in other respects, U.S. foreign policy was “very definite” in our hemisphere, namely to be “supreme.”

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Rich Lowry

Rich Lowry is the editor in chief of National Review.

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It’s not difficult to find analogues for Donald Trump’s incursion into Venezuela — because they are littered throughout 20th-century American history.

Trump’s operation was as American as Henry Cabot Lodge saying that, however unformed it might be in other respects, U.S. foreign policy was “very definite” in our hemisphere, namely to be “supreme.”