The Monroe Doctrine Is Toast

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Opinion:

Foreign Affairs
The Monroe Doctrine Is Toast
Obama wounded it. Will Trump kill it?
by Shay Khatiri    May 8, 2019 5:40 am

John Kerry’s worst moment as secretary of state—and this is a crowded category—came in 2013 when he declared that “the era of the Monroe Doctrine is over.” Kerry went on to explain that now the United States now sees the other American states as equals.

Which is, simply as a matter of geopolitics, objectively nonsensical. America is larger by population than any other country in the Americas. Its economy, as measured by nominal GDP is roughly four times the size of every other country in North, Central, and South America combined. In terms of military power, the disparity is, if anything, larger. Costa Rica doesn’t even have a standing military—it relies solely on the American security umbrella.

One might make the argument that the United States and the other countries of the Americas are equal in terms of dignity, or inherent moral worth, or natural beauty, even.

But in the terms which the American secretary of state is supposed to deal in, this remark was not just nonsense, but dangerous nonsense.

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