, Columnist
If Rubio Is America’s Superego, Stephen Miller Is the Id
All the president’s men.
Photographer: Molly Riley/The White House via Getty Images
The American attack on Venezuela to snatch-and-grab its dictator was many things: militarily masterful, legally cynical, strategically and morally warped, and entirely uncertain in its ultimate outcome for Venezuela, the Western Hemisphere and the world. It also was and is devastatingly revealing about the foreign-policy apparatus of this White House.
At the top, of course, is President Donald Trump, who makes his decisions based on caprice and ego rather than strategy or principle.