Monroe and me

On the occasion of Presidents Day I salute James Monroe.
His Monroe Doctrine posited that no European power -actually meaning Spain, definitely not meaning England- had any right to interfere with the New World territories that were not colonies of a European power and furthermore posited that the United States of America had a major say in these New World territories.
(If the English had defeated the ruling class "rebels" (bullshit!) of the 13 colonies in the late 1700s the Monroe Doctrine and further American arrogance -such this Iraqi war- would not have occurred and we Americans would be a better people.)
The Monroe Doctrine led to the Spanish American War of 1898, the war by which the U.S. lied to the Cubans about fighting for their freedom and in which the U.S. took Puerto Rico simply as an afterthought. So thanks to the Monroe Doctrine and the American aggression against Spain a Massachusetts descendant of Old Yankees dating back to the mid 1600s in Massachusetts and of an Englishman of the late 1800s got to meet Puerto Rican workers on his dad's farm in the 1950s and then settled in Puerto Rico and had some Puerto Rican children (con la mancha de platano) in the 1960s. So thanks to James Monroe I'm a Yankee Puerto Rican and a Puerto Rican Yankee.
Thanks, President Monroe, so cabron.