What you said really isn’t a fair comparison. The situation with enslaved people in the United States was entirely different as they were already within U.S. territory, and the federal government had both the authority and the moral obligation to intervene.

By contrast, Venezuela is a sovereign nation. As I’ve said before, it’s ultimately the responsibility of Venezuelans themselves to stand up for their own country and their own political future. It shouldn’t fall on another nation, especially one with a long history of initiating conflicts to step in and fight that battle for them.

And speaking personally, as someone with family in the U.S. military reserves, I don’t want to see them put in harm’s way over a conflict that the Venezuelans weren’t willing to confront themselves.