Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site mit-eddie.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ihnp4!mit-eddie!lkk From: lkk@mit-eddie.UUCP (Larry Kolodney) Newsgroups: net.politics Subject: Re: Those crates Message-ID: <3195@mit-eddie.UUCP> Date: Tue, 27-Nov-84 12:45:29 EST Article-I.D.: mit-eddi.3195 Posted: Tue Nov 27 12:45:29 1984 Date-Received: Wed, 28-Nov-84 05:22:20 EST References: <20300001@hpfcla.UUCP> <331@whuxl.UUCP> <332@whuxl.UUCP> <1816@burdvax.UUCP> Organization: MIT, Cambridge, MA Lines: 26 From: bnapl@burdvax.UUCP (Tom Albrecht): "Haven't you heard of the Monroe Doctrine?" ------ Teacher, Teacher!!! I've heard of the Monroe Doctrine! It was a unilateral declaration by the US that it would keep all European Powers out of the Western Hemisphere. In exchange, the US AGGREED TO STAY OUT OF EUROPEAN POLITICS. The Monroe Doctrine might have had some moral (although certainly not legal) force when it was first promulgated, but it certainly has none now. Ever since the U.S. decided (was dragged into?) being a world power, it lost any legitamacy to its claims of paternal influence in Latin America. The US is the most powerful country in Europe. We have forces only a few hours from Soviet territory. Where to we get off claiming that the USSR has no right to an equally offensive posture? -- larry kolodney (The Devil's Advocate) UUCP: ...{ihnp4, decvax!genrad}!mit-eddie!lkk ARPA: lkk@mit-mc