The Monroe Doctrine was based on a totally different set of rules and time in history. I had the good fortune of being raised an Army brat until my Dad retired after his third combat tour while I was a Junior in High School.
What I learned traveling the world couldn’t be crammed into a world history book that was four inches thick let alone 3/4” like the typical textbook of today. I watched and felt the world become a much smaller place in front of my eyes and I knew it the instant I saw it. It was also up front and in person, something no textbook could ever deliver.
When I joned the Army just three years after my dad retired, I ended up serving in Iran. When I first received my orders, I had an idea of what Iran was but nobody in my company, even the commander, knew where or what it was. That was 1972. Try that now and realize the Monroe Doctrine is outdated to say the least and with that, we are now the last superpower. With being the biggest kid in the family, comes resposibilities the smaller ones should not have to shoulder.
If people like Paul and his supporters don’t have the stomach to assume the responsibilities of what this country has grown to be because of its founding preinciples, it brings me to the same somple point I learned from a lot of great leaders I was fortunate enough to have known;
LEAD, FOLLOW, OR GET THE **** OUT OF THE WAY!
BTTT
Ron Paul is an absolute imbicile on foreign policy. To quote the Monroe Doctrine of 19th Century maritime hemisphere control in an era where a nation around the world can develop a nuke and deliver it via one of of tens of millions of cargo imports per year into this country is beyond naive. It is dangerous.
LEAD, FOLLOW, OR GET THE **** OUT OF THE WAY!