A CBS poll conducted November 19-21 has found that 70 percent of polled Americans oppose the United States government taking military action in Venezuela. This result is in line with polling earlier in November by Reuters/Ipsos that found that only 21 percent of polled Americans support the US government using military force for the specific objective of removing from office Venezuela President Nicolás Maduro.
Further, 56 percent of Americans questioned in the new CBS poll answered that US military action in Venezuela would not change the amount of drugs entering America, while seven percent answered that such action would actually cause more drugs to enter America. The poll results thus indicate that a substantial majority of Americans — 63 percent — are not buying the argument that has been presented by President Donald Trump and others in his presidential administration for ongoing and additional military action against Venezuela — that this military action will reduce the flow of illegal drugs into America.
Americans have seen plenty of military actions abroad fail to meet the US government’s stated objectives, and they have also seen the US government undertake one aggressive and expensive expansion of the war on drugs after another without the supply of drugs in America decreasing. Many Americans have in response become rightly skeptical of the type of claims the Trump administration has been trumpeting to try to build public support for military action against Venezuela.
The American people are just saying no to war on Venezuela. Nonetheless, the US government, as if addicted to aggression abroad and drug war expression, appears to be continuing forward with its war plan.
