WIGHTMAN: Beware the Venezuela-Iran Axis

One school of thought says that President Trump should stay out of Venezuela; that American meddling is just what the Chavistas want. Stricter economic sanctions will only harm the starving civilian population while providing the regime with an easy excuse for the country’s economic woes. However, another growing and more hawkish school demands strong-arm measures from the U.S. that protect U.S. national security first; including a purge of Venezuelan-Iranian strategic cooperation around nuclear matters and a scuttling of Obama’s 2016 Iran Nuclear Deal. More…