Heartbreaking: Here's what a U.S. soldier said when asked to justify the war on terror

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109. But the people only benefitted for a short time. Thats always the problem.

When your solution is to take everything away from the rich and corporations, you soon end up with nothing to take.
And thats exactly what has happened to VZ. Compare them to countries like Norway or Denmark, who tax at a higher rate yet have some of the highest standards of living. Because they havent had a crusade against business. And VZ has more oil than anyone, yet sank into a cesspool long before the price of oil dropped. It was a shithole when oil was 100 a barrel, because of incompetence, not the US.
We have zero to do with the failure that is Venezuela. The govt nationalized industry and production, ceased payments to foreign companies who then quit doing business there. Which is exactly what ANYONE would do. Production falls, no one ships anything to them for fear of not getting paid and everyone suffers.
Yes, Chavez was elected because everyone was too naive to know what was coming and believed all the promises.
The problem is, those promises have a short shelf life and it ran out about 8 yrs ago.
If there is a free election, Maduro will be tossed in a landslide. But he's doing his best to jail all the opposition. And his cheerleaders here see absolutely nothing wrong with it. So, let them sleep in the bed they made until they tire of that bed being the streets.