[yakbarber]

"America can never win a war with Venezuela"

No, but they'll win all the battles.

[Qem]

There is a poor track record on war against jungle covered countries whose names start with V.

[jalapenos]

It's widely accepted that the US lost in Vietnam due not to military defeat, but from the clever Tet Offensive - where they successfully influenced US politics via US journalism, to cause them to simply cease fighting.

Whether they should have bothered in the first place though, given how corrupt and dysfunctional the regime in the south was, is an open moral question.

[hirvi74]

What do you mean by poor track record? I can infer you are talking about the Vietnam War, and that is why I am curious. From a military point of view, the US did not lose a single battle of any significance during the entirety of a Vietnam War.

How does a country lose a war without losing any major battles? On the homefront first.

[PearlRiver]

This is what astounds me. Why waste all the money and blood on a frankly failed state like Venezuela that was always a basket case. What's next Haiti?

[tpm]

To divert the attention from other issues.

[beAbU]

Oil! It's always oil

[clanky]

It's because Venezuela has lots of oil and gold, and the money (and blood) won't be "wasted" for the small sliver of people who benefit from stealing it.