The geographical situation of the United States emancipates her from these conflicts, and enables her to stand for the ultimate democratic interest in international peace.
This justifiable policy of isolation has, moreover, certain important consequences in respect to the foreign policy of the United States in the two Americas.

In this field, also, the United States must stand in every practicable way for a peaceful international system, and whatever validity the Monroe Doctrine may have in its relation to the European nations is the outcome of that obligation.

If South and Central America were thrown open to European colonial ambitions, they would be involved very much more than they are at present in the consequences of European wars.

In this sense the increase of European political influence in the two Americas would be an undesirable thing which the United States would have good reason to oppose.

In this sense the extension of the European system to the American hemisphere would involve consequences inimical to democracy.