Pakistan, Jan. 22 -- "Look there, Sancho Panza, where thirty or forty hulking giants appear, whom I intend to do battle with and slay." - (Don Quixote) Part 1, Chapter VIII

There appears to be no method to the madness pertaining the pronouncements of the Trump administration in ostensibly likening its policy ideation and decision-making concerning the Western Hemisphere to the near-sacrosanct Monroe Doctrine; a lasting vision of hemispheric order, non-intervention and historical diplomatic thought, often invoked as a legitimizing precedent for later strategic doctrines of U.S. foreign policy. "America goes not abroad, in search of monsters to destroy", proclaimed John Quincy Adams, the intellectual architect of the Monroe Doctrine, encap...