An address to the public announcing plans for a military intervention is most likely to employ idealism.
As I see it, proximity of the ocean may by an important factor. It is also scientifically proved, that warm winter all over the world is connected with cold winter in South America. Furthermore, greenhouse effect slightly changed the climate there and the climate is now wetter.
Invoking the American dream as an African America
It was stock market "speculation" that contributed the most to the Depression of 1920-21, since the value of many companies became incredibly inflated--leading to a "bubble" that eventually burst in 1929.