its about time. someone finally brought it up: the Monroe Doctrine. it's quite applicable to our present dilemma.
Diehard. ive been reading the thread & your recent statement on the Doctrine is off base. assimilating all of North America into one unit is not inherent in Monroe's ideology.the doctrine basically is "essentially, the United States was informing the powers of the Old World that the American continents were no longer open to European colonization, and that any effort to extend European political influence into the New World would be considered by the United States "as dangerous to our peace and safety." The United States would not interfere in European wars or internal affairs, and expected Europe to stay out of American affairs."
from: http://usinfo.state.gov/usa/infousa/facts/democrac/50.htm
of course, that latter part is not followed. ie witness WW2.
however the Doctrine needs to be revamped for our present distress. illegal immigration is parallel to biological continental invasion via a nonnative invasive species that super competes with native species.
Monroe's idea needs be applied beyond it's original intent in intercontinental relations to intracontinental relations with our neighbors. no nation or territory on the American continent may invade, undermine, interfere et al with the United States of America. once fully realized, this should be made into a Constitutional Amendment.
> Diehard. ive been reading the thread & your recent statement on the Doctrine is off base
It may well be way off-base. The way it was taught in Vancouver in the 1970's is that "America has a Manifest Destiny to be a continental nation."
By implication, America would assimilate Canada and Mexico.
Munroe may have meant something entirely different. But this is how it was taught when and where I grew up.
(And as time rolls on it seems entirely feasible that America could indeed be a continental nation. Unless Canada gets her act together real quick...)