In 1933 these words were spoken by Major General Smedley Butler, USMC. General Butler was twice awarded the Medal of Honor. His words are just as relevant today as they were then. This aspect of American foreign policy has been consistent for a long time.
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"When a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security." -Thomas Jefferson, 1776