The Monroe Doctrine:
Twenty-First Century Edition

By Michael Ceraolo

Of events in all quarters of the globe,
                                                         with
which we have had so much commerce
and from which we derive our profits,
we have been and will continue to be
willing and able participants
It is when these profits are seriously menaced
that we make preparation for their defense
"We owe it therefore, to candor . . .to declare"
"It is still the true policy of the United States"
that, in the words of Boone and Otter,
"He can't do that to our pledges
Only we can do that to our pledges"