Defend or Refute the Following Statement as It Relates to American

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Essay

Defend or refute the following statement as it relates to American policy toward Central America in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries: "The persistent American belief that other people cannot solve their own problems and that only the American model of government will work produced what historian William Appleman Williams has called 'the tragedy of American diplomacy.'"

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