If we fail to intervene, I fear the loss of the Venezuelan people. If Guaidó falls, and millions of his supporters are gunned down or imprisoned, the world will turn to America and question us. Right here, right now, democracy is waging a war against the totalitarian, barbaric evil of Nicolas Maduro.
Can you not see? A barbaric, murderous lion strikes at a defenseless lamb, and we proclaim our neutrality. That is not just or right, by any stretch of the imagination. It is as the Archbishop Desmond Tutu once said: “If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor.”
We are the barbarians. We don't save lives, we destroy them with our wars.
