Dhaka, Jan. 4 -- As president Donald Trump spoke to the press at Mar A Lago, with his secretary of state, secretary of war and joint chief of staff behind him, a stunned world including his own country came to know that American armed forces had attacked Venezuela in the dead of night, abducted the president of that country, including his wife and America was going to administer the country allowing American oil companies to go back to Venezuela to resume their operations.

The declaration before the press strained credulity as nothing like this had happened before with America's Panama operation being a distant and unlikely comparison. Panama is a much smaller country and in the backyard of America. The allegation of Panama's then presid...