The answer to your question is because ralph looks up to jack
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James Monroe, fifth President of the United States. The Monroe Doctrine was declared in a few paragraphs of President James Monroe's seventh annual message to Congress on December 2, 1823.
Because maybe different people see it as a different danger or not a danger at all because every one has their own world view. Hope that helped