With its actions in Venezuela, the United States is now officially an outlaw state. The bombing of Caracas and the abduction of a foreign head of state, no matter his despotic leanings, has no legal or moral justification in any post–World War 2 codes of conduct. Now the prospect of a hop into other nations labeled as having undesirable leadership seems more likely and less in the realm of political science fiction. Make no mistake, the nonpartisan tradition of consultation with allies, of respect for international law, of deference toward the United Nations and the International Criminal Court has been supplanted by a locked-and-loaded era whose unilateral scripture, no congressional approval needed, is poised to endure for years to come.