Lindsey Graham wants to invade Venezuela to put 'points on the board'

[babylonsister]

https://thinkprogress.org/lindsey-graham-fox-news-war-monger-venezuela-iran-north-korea-points-on-the-board-453778bc5e0d/

Lindsey Graham wants to invade Venezuela to put ‘points on the board’
"We need points on the board."
Josh Israel
Jun 14, 2019, 8:21 am


Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) wants the United States to use military forces to intervene in Venezuela to depose the country’s contested president, Nicolás Maduro. His reason: it will scare other foreign countries like North Korea and Iran to see America put “points on the board.”

During a Fox News appearance on Friday morning, Graham was asked about the many foreign policy challenges President Donald Trump faces with Maduro still in power, North Korea continuing to ignore its supposed deal with Trump to move toward total denuclearization, and Iran allegedly attacking oil tankers in the Gulf of Oman.

“It’s a time of testing,” Graham responded, urging Trump to “put military force on the table” the way President Ronald Reagan did when he invaded Grenada in 1983. This, he argued, could help sever Venezuela’s support from Cuba.

After praising Trump for his foreign policy diplomacy, Graham said that the time has come for action.

“We need points on the board. Start with your own backyard. Tell Cuba if you are not out of Venezuela, in a week, and people are starving and dying in Venezuela because Maduro is such a thug, then we are making a mistake. Fix Venezuela and everybody else will know you are serious.”

This is not the first time the senator has argued for invading Venezuela — or at least threatening to do so — as a strategy to stop Cuban influence there. But it is the clearest he’s been that he wants to pursue a war-mongering approach for the optics it will create.

Trump cited Graham in February as an example of a person he listens to on foreign policy matters.

[spanone]

1. Republicans are sick. Why would we want to scare trump's lover, Kim?

lindsey has lost his ever-loving mind.

[atreides1]

2. Okay

I understand that his sister has children...ask him if he's willing to put them in the front???

[Raven]

3. Yeah, good, Lindsey, points on the board and our troops in their graves. n/t

[C_U_L8R]

4. That's just idiotic.

Resign for even suggesting something so stupid

[Cracklin Charlie]

5. Will Lindsey be a part of the first wave?

Then, no.

Scoring points on putting humans in danger...disgusting.

[gratuitous]

12. Get him a rifle

Take that first squad and lead the charge, Lindsey. Gotta get those points on the board, and everyone needs to contribute. You first.

[Wounded Bear]

6. So now they're competing to decide who to invade first, Iran or Venezuela?

[Eugene]

7. never met a war he didn't like nt

[bdamomma]

8. oh god

[Me.]

9. Boy, Oh Boy...What do they Have On Him

It has to be really really bad

[Cyrano]

15. His blue dress

[Me.]

21. I'm Thinking It's Worse Than That

won't say, but will wait and see if some day we know.

[MurrayDelph]

10. In a way he's more-honest than most

He admits that he wants to start a war in order to wave America's dick at the world.

[SamKnause]

11. Fuck off !!!

[PufPuf23]

13. Venezuela is not 1983 Grenada

How can Lindsay Graham be so stupid and survive as an individual much less be a long term Senator?

Graham is an amoral war-monger unfit to be in public service.

[GoCubsGo]

14. That's because it's not his loved ones who will be doing the invading.

It's much easier to send other peoples' sons and daughters off to do that. He can go fuck himself.

[shanti]

16. Multi-front wars

Isn't that what the PNAC outlined? It's pretty obvious they haven't closed that book, especially with Bolton back in the saddle.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

17. How many fucking wars are we supposed to fight?

Iran? Venezuela?

This isn't a fucking video game.

[Yavin4]

18. And this man is trotted out by the MSM as being THE voice on international affairs.

He practically lives on the Sunday morning shows.

[Ilsa]

19. That is the most

Fucked up thing I've heard all week.

Too bad it wasn't Lindsey with brain cancer.

[Proud Liberal Dem]

20. "Points on a board"

How much more callous with other people's lives can you be?!