This is CBS Eye on the World. Here's John Batchel.

This is CBSI on the world. I'm John Batchel. I welcome my colleague, Mary Kistel, Executive Vice President Stevens, Inc.

Former Senior Advisor of the Secretary of State,

and many years with the editorial page of the Wall Street Journal, including in Asia.

I call upon Mary's experience to comment on three dilemmas now facing the Trump administration

in foreign policy, existential dilemmas.

We begin in Venezuela.

The fleet that is gathered off the coast of Venezuela is extremely powerful enough to take a continent.

At this instance, so it is regarded as a demonstration of concern that the people of Venezuela are at risk from the Madura regime that is illegitimate, that practices brutality and murder routinely, and is also

part of a drug cartel, the cartel of the sons, that is about saving the smuggling of poison into the United States and killing American citizens.

That is well known. It's not debatable. What we're dealing with here is what is to be done about

moving Maduro regime out of Caracas and having the legitimately elected presidency of Gonzalez

from last summer installed in a way that the nine

million people said to be having fled Venezuela can return to their homes. The dilemma is what is to

be done, to use the kinetic power of the fleet and the Air Force and the Marine Corps and all of the

tools of the United States,

or do you instead, these last days, begin a dialogue, a talk, conversation with Maduro leaving,

perhaps with promises, perhaps not. There is the dilemma that the President faces right now.

He made remarks the other day, offhandedly as the president does,

that he's almost made up his mind.

We don't know.

Go or no go.

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