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Originally posted by Ronn_Bman:
Magik was it a Freudian slip? [img]tongue.gif[/img] 
For those who don't know, the Monroe Doctrine is from the early 1800's. It was bascially the US flipping off the colonial powers. This policy was proclaimed by President Monroe as a way of telling European Powers to stay the heck out of the Americas. It was a thinly veiled threat that we couldn't really backup...."Stay out of the Americas, and we'll stay out of Europe."
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Actually, T. Roosevelt used the Monroe Doctrine to get involved in Venezuela and Panama, help start a revolution whereby Panama became its own nation, and finally build the Panama canal. Reagan used it to go bomb Nicaraugua and to support the Contras. JFK used it to threaten Russia regarding Cuba. Many many more examples abound. Okay... off topic, I know. But, it is a bedrock policy of American politics and more than "thinly veiled."