4 thoughts on “Foreign Intervention And The Monroe Doctrine”
Amen, Andrew Muller. Clear thinking. I feel for the abused Venezuelan people, but freeing them is not the purpose of the US government.
Trump is somewhat analogous to Louis XVI, whose Ancien Regime was so barnacled with corruption and debt that his relatively virtuous aid to the American Revolution (which proved crucial) finished off his regime. Trump sits astride a colossus in the Swamp of similar corruption and insolvency, but rather than tackling that, he seeks glory in Russia, Israel, Iran, Greenland, and Venezuela.
BTW, Monroe was just huffing and puffing. In 1823, the US was not going to war with anyone over S. America.
And if that were really a thing, a tremendously stronger case could have been made for bloodthirsty Castro and Cuba, probably more evil than Maduro and Cuba is practically in our backyard. If JFK had let the CIA invade Cuba, he could have stayed alive and we could have avoided the ten-times more unreasonable Vietnam War.
It seems, J. Sobran, there were pressures to expand the role of the federal government beyond its constitutional limits and to involve us in foreign disputes almost as soon as the ink was dry on the drafting of the Constitution. Trump is clearly trying to throw his weight around in many different foreign situations without committing US troops. We shall see if that changes.
That sit down covered a lot territory. Troop is on sound ground by interdicting the drug boats coming out of Venezuela. The speaker is also right when he says the American public would be uncomfortable with a land war there. Hopefully there will be a regime change and Maduro will be deposed by his own citizens.
I agree, Fred. I don’t know enough about the oil tankers to have an opinion about that particular issue.
Amen, Andrew Muller. Clear thinking. I feel for the abused Venezuelan people, but freeing them is not the purpose of the US government.
Trump is somewhat analogous to Louis XVI, whose Ancien Regime was so barnacled with corruption and debt that his relatively virtuous aid to the American Revolution (which proved crucial) finished off his regime. Trump sits astride a colossus in the Swamp of similar corruption and insolvency, but rather than tackling that, he seeks glory in Russia, Israel, Iran, Greenland, and Venezuela.
BTW, Monroe was just huffing and puffing. In 1823, the US was not going to war with anyone over S. America.
And if that were really a thing, a tremendously stronger case could have been made for bloodthirsty Castro and Cuba, probably more evil than Maduro and Cuba is practically in our backyard. If JFK had let the CIA invade Cuba, he could have stayed alive and we could have avoided the ten-times more unreasonable Vietnam War.
It seems, J. Sobran, there were pressures to expand the role of the federal government beyond its constitutional limits and to involve us in foreign disputes almost as soon as the ink was dry on the drafting of the Constitution. Trump is clearly trying to throw his weight around in many different foreign situations without committing US troops. We shall see if that changes.
That sit down covered a lot territory. Troop is on sound ground by interdicting the drug boats coming out of Venezuela. The speaker is also right when he says the American public would be uncomfortable with a land war there. Hopefully there will be a regime change and Maduro will be deposed by his own citizens.
I agree, Fred. I don’t know enough about the oil tankers to have an opinion about that particular issue.