John Quincy Adams is today famous for helping formulate the Monroe Doctrine and battling the expansion of slavery.
Not unlike the Monroe Doctrine or the Truman Doctrine, the new policy will likely define the conditions under which the government considers force justified.
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Most are familiar enough American exceptionalism, the Monroe Doctrine and so on but Mr McDougall brings a fresh and sceptical eye and a willingness to challenge familiar categories.
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Nearly 200 years later, this policy position, hidden in the context of a larger address and dealing with many issues of the day, we still call today the Monroe Doctrine.
He also expressed grave concern at the present Administration's failure to apply the basic tenets of the Monroe Doctrine with respect to China's ominous and growing involvement in our backyard.
While the embargo has been through several legal iterations in the intervening years, the general tenor of the U.S. position toward Cuba is a hardline not-in-my-backyard approach to communism a la the Monroe Doctrine.
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But Mr Kagan's Whiggery helps to bring long-dead diplomatic history to life: who else but a professional historian would want to read about the Monroe doctrine except for the light that it throws on America's current dilemma?
But many foreign governments fear it is an attempt to curb U.S. influence in Asia, in much the way the U.S. sought to restrict European meddling in the Americas with the Monroe Doctrine in the early 19th century.
Serving under President Monroe, Adams was one of America's great Secretaries of State, arranging with England for the joint occupation of the Oregon country, obtaining from Spain the cession of the Floridas, and formulating with the President the Monroe Doctrine.
The expansionist impulse continued under Teddy Roosevelt, whose big stick (carry one, while talking softly, he advised) and amendments to the Monroe Doctrine (his corollary proclaimed the United States' right to intervene anywhere in Latin America to prevent the Europeans doing so) have helped to make him a hero in today's Washington.
Admiral Leon 'Bud' Edney (USN Ret.), former Supreme Allied Commander, Atlantic, decried the "benign neglect" with which successive U.S. administrations have treated the Western hemisphere and expressed grave concern at the present Administration's failure to apply the basic tenets of the Monroe Doctrine with respect to China's ominous and growing involvement in our backyard.
The squandered opportunity for democratic consolidation and free market economic growth in the Western hemisphere will be among the most malevolent aspects of the Clinton legacy -- a legacy made all the more reprehensible for Mr. Clinton neither meaning nor saying that he stands by the Monroe Doctrine when it comes to Chinese penetration of our neighborhood.
And like Howling Wolf, Monroe had disciples studying his doctrine from afar.
James McKinney, is McKinney's identical twin and is based at the Army's Training and Doctrine Command at Fort Monroe, Virginia.
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