I know people are still squeamish and want to return to some fantasy status quo. That’s over. We’re in new territory now and things are going to be unpleasant.

The entry level position at this point is putting these motherfuckers in jail for the rest of their natural lives.

ok so we should just make peace with the possibility that they shoot a woman in the face every day for the next ten months but then the democrats will totally do something about it?

More broadly, this is a depressing death knell to the idea — already on life support — that U.S. foreign policy cares *at all* about democracy and human rights, in Latin America or elsewhere.

Now we love dictatorships, just so long as they're willing to give us a cut of the proceeds.