And in Venezuela

Venezuela bid for US 'peace meeting'

Per BBC,

Venezuela blames the US for the anti-government protests that have left 28 people dead in the past month.

The US says Venezuela is using it as a scapegoat for its internal problems.

Frankly, I suspect the US government is the more likely liar, even though that means O must have approved efforts at destabilization of the regime.

Just as he must have done in the case of Ukraine.

Not for the first time, I admit I don't get O, apart from the racial chip on his shoulder and the self-righteous racism we sometimes see, for example, in his attitudes about black crime and white police.

He heads the white government of a white country, and seems to do it with as little difficulty as an Irish congressman representing a Polish district.

That is what made it possible for so many whites, me included, to vote for him.

But his own policies - domestic, too, but mostly foreign - are not out of line with those that made his "spiritual leader" of twenty years cry out, "God damn America!"

Of which a very large part is and has been gratuitous, buttinsky globalism.

Just what we should expect from the kind of man who wants to be president, I suppose.

The kind who want to be the boss, not really for any ulterior or further purpose, but just because they want to be the boss.

The executive personality, in a nutshell.

It's just about ambition, pure will to power.

An inherently expansive, imperialist sort of thing, I imagine, of its nature.

After all, do we not all hear endlessly repeated the claim, however absurd, that the American president is the most powerful leader in the world?

Talk about a job description to appeal to the worst in human nature.

And do not for a moment suppose it is only Republicans who find the myth convenient - or maybe congenial - that America has a mission to save the world.