[Captain Kirk]

Corrected version:

Nonsense! Teddy had little patience for nation-building and "spreading democracy." Now....he took the Panama canal but, for the most part, his administration was a model of restraint in foreign policy compared to Wilson (who like modern pro-conservatives) who wanted to "liberate" and "uplift" every God-forsaken corner of the planet.

[My2Cents]

From a post I made earlier on another thread:

From Stephan Ambrose's book, TO AMERICA

In my interviews with World War II veterans, they sometimes tell me that the reason they fought was that they had learned as children the difference between right and wrong and they didn't want to live in a world in which wrong prevailed, so they fought. Right there, I think, one hears the voice of Theodore Roosevelt ringing in the words of soldiers born after his death. It seems to me that perhaps our greatest strength is that American kids are brought up to know right from wrong. And of all our Presidents, the one who used the words "right" and "wrong" more than any other, who did the most to exalt right-doing, was Theodore Roosevelt.

[TomB]

Nonsense! Teddy had little patience for nation-building and "spreading democracy." Now....he took the Panama canal but, for the most part, his administration was a model of restraint in foreign policy compared to Wilson (who like modern pro-conservatives) who wanted to "liberate" and "uplift" every God-forsaken corner of the planet.

The Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine

Foreign intervention in Latin American resurfaced as an issue in U.S. foreign policy at the turn of the century as European governments began to use force to pressure several Latin American countries to repay their debts.. For example, British, German, and Italian gunboats blockaded Venezuela’s ports in 1902 when the Venezuelan government defaulted on its debts to foreign bondholders. Many Americans worried that European intervention in Latin America would undermine their country’s traditional dominance in the region. As part of his annual address to Congress in 1904, President Theodore Roosevelt stated that in keeping with the Monroe Doctrine the United States was justified in exercising "international police power" to put an end to chronic unrest or wrongdoing in the Western Hemisphere. This so-called Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine contained a great irony: whereas the Monroe Doctrine had been sought to prevent European intervention in the Western Hemisphere, the Roosevelt Corollary justified American intervention throughout the Western Hemisphere.

[dark_lord]

Wasn't Wilson a racist who introduced segregating and banning blacks from any higher level posts in the Federal government? Any students of Presidential history can correct me here if my memory is incorrect.