This is an ambitious and inspired goal. If Trump can remove Maduro from power and install an enduring pro-U.S. democracy in Latin America, then this will be a tremendous foreign-policy success for the United States.

In a wide-ranging 60 Minutes interview with Norah O’Donnell that aired on Nov. 2, U.S. President Donald Trump revealed that the goal of his Venezuela policy is to remove Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro from power. “Are Maduro’s days as president numbered?” O’Donnell asked, and Trump responded, “I would say so, yeah. I think so, yeah.”

In a wide-ranging 60 Minutes interview with Norah O’Donnell that aired on Nov. 2, U.S. President Donald Trump revealed that the goal of his Venezuela policy is to remove Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro from power. “Are Maduro’s days as president numbered?” O’Donnell asked, and Trump responded, “I would say so, yeah. I think so, yeah.”

This is an ambitious and inspired goal. If Trump can remove Maduro from power and install an enduring pro-U.S. democracy in Latin America, then this will be a tremendous foreign-policy success for the United States.

It would not be the first time that a Republican U.S. president used military force to defenestrate an anti-U.S. dictator in the region. President Ronald Reagan ordered an invasion of Grenada in 1983 base on fears that the government was buildin