The Monroe Doctrine was formulated by patriots who put American first. There are no such politicians in Washington, D.C., as far as I can tell.
RE: "The Monroe Doctrine was formulated by patriots who put American first. There are no such politicians in Washington, D.C., as far as I can tell."
Ditto on that, but history has proven that the Monroe Doctrine will survive this lull to see the light of a future presidency. Sooner or later, Chavez is going to force us to take action, and it won't be pretty. Between his increasingly open funding and support of the violent, drug-running FARC guerillas in Colombia and the fact that he is using his control of the world's largest non-Arab oil reserves to subsidise his communist mentor's despotic regime, Something tells me this fat little commie murderer won't live to reach Fidel's ripe old age.
Like Daniel Ortega and Pineapple face Noriega, Chavez will push the wrong President too far. I hope that Bush has the guts to be that man. The CIA IS there for a reason, you know? USE IT!