[TomB]

The Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe doctrine was not unimportant but it was mostly just talk. As the distinguished historian, Howard Beale points out, he generally showed restraint during his tenure. Intervention in a major way began under Taft and Wilson

Perhaps, but you made the assertion that TR's administration was "a model of restraint in foreign policy". Nothing in that declaration is "restrained".

[Captain Kirk]

True...I am no fan of TR but the mad, bloodthirsty imperialist who gleefully praised war per se as a positive good in 1898 was far more restained that many predicted as president.