One of the major foreign policy weaknesses of both the Clinton and Dubya administrations is that they have minimized the historical precedent of the Monroe Doctrine. I mean, what ever happened to that?
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Good question.
It died with the Cuban revolution and Soviet support for Castro. Didn't it?
The Monroe Doctrine was military imperialism.
Today we use the FTAs and Chavez, Morales, Obrador, and Noriega accuse us of economic imperialism.