To be fair, there was a lot of tension there over how brutal exactly he was going to be in putting that rebellion down. But yes, this is a huge problem. Once w

To be fair, there was a lot of tension there over how brutal exactly he was going to be in putting that rebellion down. But yes, this is a huge problem. Once we convince someone to disarm, refusing to take force off the table completely undermines future efforts to disarm. I often said throughout the 2000s that if with as much shit talk as the U.S. throws Hugo Chavez's way, if he's not either building nukes or hiring jihadis to teach his people guerilla warfare, he's stupid. I harbored no love of Chavez but when your on the S list of a maurading superpower, you probably should have a plan B.