Friends, please learn the arguments then brawl over on the left side of the argument, undermining the foundational lies on which Leftism is built.  Leftists like Michael Moore use historical errors to advance leftist propaganda.  For example, every word in this sentence is wrong: "The Spanish American War was a chapter in the American assertion of 'manifest destiny,' which claimed the U.S.'s right to determine governments and policies for its Latin-American neighbors."  Wrong.  The Spanish American War was not a chapter in the American assertion of Manifest Destiny. Manifest Destiny was the concept that the United States was destined to expand from coast to coast.  Manifest destiny was all about getting to the Pacific Ocean, not the Caribbean.  Manifest Destiny had nothing at all to do with intervention in Latin America.   This is exactly the kind of fundamental error every Leftist uses.  Arguing with Leftists is like chasing a squirrel around a tennis court with a tennis racket.  In fact, The Spanish American War occurred in 1898 and by 1898  Manifest Destiny was old policy with almost no one in the American establishment even using the term.  The Monroe Doctrine, the US policy introduced on December 2, 1823, aimed to end further efforts by European nations to increase colonized land, first in North America and secondly in South America.  These Leftists are attempting to confuse Manifest Destiny and the Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine, which ended armed European intervention.  According to Enrique Krauze writing for Bloomberg:  "Although the Cuban system (Socialist) still has its fervent devotees in Latin America, a large part of the center-left (now convinced of the advantages of democracy) has recognized that the social achievements (in education and health) of the Cuban Revolution didn’t require the imposition of a totalitarian regime. And the example of China has surely inspired the Cuban hierarchy toward an economic opening of the island."
 
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-11-30/castro-s-demise-won-t-erase-troubled-u-s-legacy-enrique-krauze.html