In an interview with Glenn Greenwald on his Nov. 3 System Update program, Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) bluntly described President Donald Trump’s current Caribbean war-and-regime-change offensive against Venezuela as “insane,” warning that “civilized people” don’t do the things that the U.S. Navy’s Special Operations Command personnel are doing, gunning people down, calling them terrorists and drug traffickers and killing them extrajudicially with no evidence. The people killed are considered “to be less than human, not deserving of the respect of animals,” you just kill them, Paul said.
Don’t forget Barack Obama’s policy of “Killing Terrorists Tuesday,” Paul said—killing people with drones, listed on flash cards as terrorists, with no evidence or accountability. At least 1,000 people were killed this way, targeted as they attended weddings and funerals, and that’s what is being done today in the Caribbean, this time by Republicans who hated Obama.
In his very hard-hitting commentary, Sen. Paul pointed to the role of the neocons he says now surround Trump, “and have been salivating over removing [Venezuelan President] Maduro, replacing him with Ronald Reagan as soon as they can get Ronald Reagan down there…that is their goal,” he noted with some humor. The Senator remarked that he’s been accused of not supporting the President enough, but in fact, “I support his stated campaign positions much more than the people who are close [to him now] who’ve always been of the neocon variety, of the interventionist wing of the party, and they now surround him.”
