“With the death toll from President Donald Trump’s boat bombings of alleged drug traffickers now at 130 after a Monday strike, a pair of progressive congresswomen on Tuesday called for ending the Monroe Doctrine and establishing a “New Good Neighbor” policy toward Latin America and the Caribbean.

“In 1823, then-President James Monroe “declared the Western Hemisphere off limits to powerful countries in Europe””

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    Yanks killed 4 million Vietnamese, literally salting the earth with chemical weapons all without a single declaration of war.

    The idea US presidents need it is laughable. Shit it’s even more laughable that the Republicans would ever restrain a US president from a war of aggression is even more laughable, even if it was a democrat pushing the button.

    For the republicans every problem is a nail (and boy do their corporate overlords have a great deal on hammers).