In 1982 I came across a quote from the humorist Will Rogers, who once asked: “Where the hell is Nicaragua, and what the hell are we doing there?” And that was in 1933. At that point the US had already been involved there for nearly a century. — anonymous
Daily Manna
This is the view that led Theodore Roosevelt to assert that submitting to America's will was "the prerequisite condition to the moral and material advance of the people who dwell in the darker corners… — Stephen Kinzer