pros: you get more international fame,power and trading opportunities. People will look up to you and try to become allies with you, offering extremely good deals for low prices
cons: more hate behind your back, the huge risk of a hard downfall (if major world powers decide to come together and try to take down America), and as the person above me said, lose the support of liberal people because of roosevelt's imperealistic tendencies.
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Teddy Rooseveltâ??s â??Big Stick Policyâ?? is greatly admired by people of conservative ideology, based on what they believed was the reshaping of the duties of the presidency and â??redefined Americaâ??s place in the modern world. However, Liberal opponents criticize him for his tendency to criticize nations he considered â??uncivilizedâ?? and reflect an imperialistic attitude.
Middle America: Panama, Cuba and Venezuela.
What Theodore Roosevelt said was not "walk softly but carry a big stick" as is often mis-quoted. He gave his famous quote during a speech in 1903: There is a homely old adage which runs: "Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far." If the American nation will speak softly, and yet build and keep at a pitch of the highest training a thoroughly efficient navy, the Monroe Doctrine will go far. Source:mediatinker
John O'Sullivan said that the US destiny was to end world hunger, free the slaves, to carry a big stick, kill Lee Harvey Oswald, kill the Nazis, carry a big stick, and charity for all.
He may have, but if so he was quoting President Teddy Roosevelt.
Monroe He instigated the "Monroe Doctrine" and coined the phrase "walk softly and carry a big stick"