“Wilson Perfectly Embodies U.S. Hypocrisy. That’s Why We Should Remember Him.,” Stephen Kinzer, Politico, 6 December 2015:
In 1916 [Woodrow] Wilson drafted a speech to Congress declaring, “It shall not lie with American people to dictate to another people what their government shall be.” He sent it to his secretary of state for review. It came back with this notation in the margin: “Haiti, S. Domingo, Nicaragua, Panama.” Confronted with this inconvenient reminder, Wilson decided not to deliver the speech.
Spot on!