We haven't done this before. With Panama, Congress was involved in the years running up to the invasion. Panama even declared war on the US and killed a Marine Corps officer. The American people had been told over and over what was going on down there, and ultimately why we needed to. Venezuela? We were told fentanyl was a WMD, even though the vast majority comes through Mexico. We were executing dudes in boats without due process, when for the previous 20+ years, the Coast Guard would catch them and put them on trial, oh and our administration couldn't get their story straight on whether or not we were killing helpless dudes in water. And some of those dudes were not going to the US at all. We were told these dudes in boats could kill 25,000 Americans. None of us were buying any of that. We hear all of this stuff about drugs, but what did Trump fixate on in his presser? How we were going to run Venezuela and bring in our oil companies and take our oil back. And then he goes on Fox and Friends and says "gee whiz, we need to do this to other countries, we are really good at this" and he apparently warns Cuba, Mexico, and Colombia. Meanwhile, unlike Panama where we had tens of thousands of boots already on the ground with all of their gear, we don't have any control within the country itself, and Maduro's Vice President and Army Chief of Staff are out there on Venezuelan TV demanding Maduro be released. This is an absolute shit show. We kidnapped two people. There is a huge gap between kidnapping two people and actually controlling and running a country of 28 million people. We couldn't do it in Iraq with a force that was on the ground and ten+ times the size of what we have deployed in the Caribbean.