Y'all strokin' your chins and standing agape at this Venezuelan clusterfuck have set your expectations much too high. You need to step into Bo Gritz' world. See, in the FreedomSphere we know that John Rambo was based on a real guy. We know that the A-Team was a loose fictionalization. And we know that Al "I'm in control here" Haig consulted on Red Dawn. You drive past the VFW and you see that goddamn ugly flag based on not a whole helluvalot and you don't realize that the Wingnutosphere of the '80s managed to trump up the idea of lost POWs so hard that Delta actually had mission profiles. Of course, you're now taking the word of one jingoistic warmonger over another but fundamentally? Abu Graib happened because Joel Surnow though it it was dramatic. This is our second TV president. The first one was all about dumb shit that works in the movies inflicted on the real world. Meanwhile, Erik Prince has gone from being a bagman fringe figure to being the Rudy Giuliani of wetwork. The real question is why isn't this a bigger clusterfuck.