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During our first 150 years, we renounced interventionism and threatened war on any foreign power that dared to intervene in our hemisphere.
False. America was barely 25 years old when it had already dispatched forces to Libya to combat pirates. In 1812 the USA invaded Canada (then a British colony, and burned a government building in Toronto, leading to the latter burning of the soon-to-be-White House by British troops).
Here's the rest of the "military actions" undertaken in the first 150 years of this country: Mexican War 1846, Japan 1853, Nicaragua 1855, Samoa 1889, Hawaii 1893, Spanish War 1898, China expedition 1900, Nicaragua 1909, Haiti 1915, Dominican Republican 1916, World War I 1914, Russian revolution 1918, Yangtze 1926.
One only needs to listen to the Marine Corps anthem to remind oneself of the long list of interventionist actions by the US.
It is also quite a stretch to say that invading countries in Latin America piecemeal for the last 170 years is not interventionism simply because they happen to be in the same half of the world as the USA. |
