‘Better off for it’

Dear Editor:

RE: “Feckless admiration,” Jan. 8.

I do not see anything adverse in the remarks of local MP Michael Chong or Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre on the U.S. capture of Venezuela’s Nicolas Maduro.

Don’t get me wrong, this changes nothing about the ongoing antics of U.S. President Donald Trump. But I think we should always separate for a minute the issue versus the player to keep everything in context. Maduro in our hemisphere was as vicious as any in faraway places where dictators are killing and jailing their opponents. It’s no secret he was financing his regime via cooperation with Columbian cartels. 

Let’s also not forget that prior Democrat and Republican presidents who are well cherished, all all way back to JFK, have taken both covert CIA and open military actions in countries in attempts to either kill or capture leaders. 

Poilievre and Chong only stated that a brutal illegitimate corrupt person was captured and we are better off for it.

Doak McCraney,
Guelph