Do you think it was hipocritical that the US issued the Monroe Doctrine and then waged war on Mexico?
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The Monroe Doctrine was pronounced to keep European countries out of the Western Hemisphere's affairs and to prevent them from trying to re-take colonies that had become free. It did not prohibite countries in the New World from attending to their own matters. In fact, the Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine clearly said that circumstances may ultimately require intervention by some civilized nation and may force the United States "to the exercise of an international police power." Border disputes with Mexico, among other things, pushed the U.S. into the Mexican War. But as an intra-North America affair, without the intervention of European powers, it had nothing to with the Monroe Doctrine
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