[Salvey]

Unfortunately, we've lost our will and our courage to enforce the Monroe Doctrine.

[jazusamo]

It looks like we better get that will back because it doesn't look like Hugo is going to back off.

[nightdriver]

"Unfortunately, we've lost our will and our courage to enforce the Monroe Doctrine."

Not so much that, but remember, John Fitzgerald Kennedy pretty much scuttled the Monroe Doctrine when he "courageously" handled the Cuban missle crisis back in the early '60s. Essentially, we have no Monroe Doctrine today.

We only learned in later years of the concessions JFK made to get the USSR to back off.