John Bolton recently cited 19th century US foreign policy to justify US intervention in Venezuela, Nicaragua and Cuba
In a recent comment, US National Security Advisor John Bolton bragged that the current White House administration is "not afraid to use the phrase 'Monroe Doctrine.'" He was of course referring to the 1823 policy of President Monroe, who extended US protection to any part of the Americas facing colonization by European nations.
Its meaning has apparently been twisted over the years, however, along with the way the US sees its role in the world. When Ronald Reagan supported murdering dictators in Latin America and sent the CIA after democratically elected leftist leaders, he was said to be following the Monroe Doctrine. Arguably, it has since gone global, with the US claiming it to be its unalienable right to meddle in any nation anywhere in the world for no better reason than protecting its national interests, be it Syria or Venezuela.
RT's Murad Gazdiev explores how a once benevolent idea turned into a justification for imperialist policy.
PNAC members, and signees to its policy documents, include: Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, Paul Wofowitz, Jeb Bush, Richard Perle, John Bolton, Scooter Libby, Elliot Abrams, Richard Armitage, William Bennet, William Kristol, and Zalmy Khalilzad.
So it's a cavalcade of organized crime figures whom have been living in Washington DC ever since grade school, whom have been directly involved in every single event for well over three decades, that has cost the American People Tens of Trillions of dollars, Thousands of lives, and whom are each one individually responsible for the deaths of hundreds of millions of other human beings.