WASHINGTON >> Regime change. Mission creep. U.S. military intervention overseas.

For years, many of President Donald Trump’s ardent supporters rallied around his pledge to avoid another “forever war” after the long U.S. conflicts in the Middle East and Central Asia.

Now several prominent conservative policy advisers and commentators are raising concerns about the administration’s expanding military actions against Venezuela and in the Caribbean.

They say the hawkish views that led Democratic and Republican administrations to perpetuate wasteful wars are coming to the fore again as Trump’s top aides move to try to depose Nicolás Maduro, the autocrat who leads Venezuela.

Since early September, the United States has launched a series of lethal strikes against civilian boats that American

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