Nothing wrong with an air raid to destroy anything that could possibly attack the oil rigs followed by an occupation of them, quickly followed by a special forces strike to kill Chavez and a right wing coup to replace him.
I think treating Venzuela as an American playground would be a poor foreign policy move. It'd probably force the Venzuelans to the left politically, perhaps sending the country back to the 2004-05 days of leftist demagoguery (asuming a democracy is left intact).
Their democracy wouldn´t survive.
Political for the USA, it would be one of the biggest disasters in the last hundred years on the international scene.
