Originally Posted by
rickair7777
During the cold war, allowing a communist group to control any such landmass or island was unacceptable...presumably they would invite their Soviet backers to set up shop. Remember the whole cuban missile crisis thing?
Today it doesn't matter.
Cuba I guess was acceptable (i.e. handled poorly as jungle would say)...
It just seems like the Monroe Doctrine was only used in some cases. Soviet Nuclear subs around Cuba or Venezuala would be more of a threat, although they may have been in international waters... they were still more of threat than a 9000ft runway on an island further away than Cuba, and getting aid from the Canadians, British, Mexicans as well as the communists.