Posted on 12/02/2016 10:12:56 AM PST by harpygoddess
The Monroe Doctrine means what it has meant since President Monroe and John Quincy Adams enunciated it, and that is that we would oppose a foreign power extending its power to the Western Hemisphere, and that is why we oppose what is happening in Cuba today. That is why we have cut off our trade. This is why we worked in the OAS and in other ways to isolate the Communist menace in Cuba. This is why we continue to give a good deal of our effort and attention to it.
~ President John F. Kennedy, news conference, 29 August 1962. The Cuban Missile Crisis followed about a month and a half later.
Today is the anniversary of the proclamation of the "Monroe Doctrine" in the Seventh State of the Union address of U.S. President James Monroe (served 1817-1825) in 1823. Formulated largely by Monroe's secretary of state, John Quincy Adams (1767-1848), the Doctrine stated that the American continents were no longer open to European colonization and that the United States would view with displeasure any further European intervention in the Americas.
The occasion has been judged proper for asserting, as a principle in which the rights and interests of the United States are involved, that the American continents, by the free and independent condition which they have assumed and maintained, are henceforth not to be considered subjects for future colonization by any European powers.
~ President James Monroe (1758-1831) (7th State of the Union address, 2 December 1823 - the "Monroe Doctrine")
We owe it, therefore, to candor and to the amicable relations existing between the United States and those powers to declare that we should consider any attempt on their part to extend their system to any portion of this hemisphere as dangerous to our peace and safety. With the existing colonies or dependencies of any European power we have not interfered and shall not interfere. But with the Governments who have declared their independence and maintained it, and whose independence we have, on great consideration and on just principles, acknowledged, we could not view any interposition for the purpose of oppressing them, or controlling in any other manner their destiny, by any European power in any other light than as the manifestation of an unfriendly disposition toward the United States.
~ Ibid. (a more formal statement of the Doctrine)
~ Demosthenes (ca. 384-322 B.C.) (Second Philippic, sec. 24)
When California secedes the Doctrine will apply. But then we will still be paying for their defense.
There’s more. Trump can get those 2,000 Brits out of the Falklands. Turn it into a penal colony for illegals serving out their terms b4 deportation. Argentina can staff it for 20-50 years.
Sweet idea.
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