“In some ways, it has been at the heart of American foreign policy since the beginning. A great many of our foreign military interventions were undertaken not to save lives or for humanitarian purposes, but simply to advance the economic interests of the country as a whole or just particular businesses. … I consulted a Congressional Research Service catalogue of U.S. armed interventions abroad since 1798. I saw that not only were virtually none of them authorized by Congress, but an imperial lust for territory and markets was the motive for the vast bulk. Not surprisingly, Latin America was the focal point of many such actions.”
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