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I'm not sure how you can equate a corrupt money stealing government with a genocidal regime in which tens of millions of people were killed, imprisoned, and made refugees; while also drawing all the super powers into a protracted and bloody war, arguably we are still feeling the effects of today.

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Dozens of Venezuelans are murdered every day as a result of the Government's inability to maintain even the minimal facade of law in order in many parts of the country. I'm not sure how many people have to die, and how many others have to live in misery, so clearly caused by corruption, before the world acts against the leaders responsible. There has to be some standard, but I think that Venezuela has met it.

Can the civilized world do this in Syria as well? Its appalling that the slaughter and destruction has gone on this long

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