Michelle Goldberg’s column struck a deep nerve in me because I have spent a lifetime watching the United States stumble into one regime-change disaster after another — always cloaked in moral urgency, always ending in human tragedy. I remember the march to Iraq, when we were told freedom was around the corner; instead we unleashed mass death, sectarian carnage, and a wound that has never fully closed. I remember Libya, where a “quick intervention” left a nation splintered and a region destabilized. And Afghanistan — two decades of sacrifice, only to leave behind devastation and a people abandoned.
So when I see Washington edging once again toward regime change in Venezuela, that familiar dread returns. We know how this story ends. And I have to ask: could this sudden interest in intervention also be tied to America’s longstanding appetite for Venezuela’s enormous oil reserves? In this moment — as the Epstein scandal threatens to expose a rot at the highest levels — it’s also hard not to wonder whether Venezuela is becoming a convenient political diversion.
For once, we should break the cycle and choose restraint, humility, and diplomacy over yet another catastrophe fueled by arrogance and amnesia.
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