Some are wondering how the leader of the free world should respond to emergent events in Eastern Europe.
President Obama said his own family resembles a United Nations Assembly. There must be a global response to the emergent events in Eastern Europe based on precedent set by President Monroe.
President Monroe issued what became the Monroe Doctrine. It stated the United States would thwart foreign aggression in the Western Hemisphere. President Kennedy held to this to face Russia down in the 1962 Cuban Missile crisis. The emergent events in the Eastern Hemisphere must be responded to with international pressure. President Washington in his farewell address warned Americans about foreign entanglements. That set a foreign policy of "Isolationism" for many years. We are the world's super power, but we must discern when a response to emergent world situations require an international response.
Buford Lee Burks