For months, there has been debate within the Trump administration on meeting the president's goal of stopping what he has described as open-ended American military entanglements in foreign conflicts.
Although the Monroe Doctrine observed the letter of Washington's warning against foreign entanglements it actually told the world that the United States was a major world power.
It was a place impossible to enter except on official business, and then only by penetrating through a maze of barbed-wire entanglements, steel doors, and hidden machine-gun nests.
This is one of the busiest urban waterways on the planet, and they face threats such as, you know, impacts from shipping which could include ship strikes or ocean noise, incidental entanglement in fishing gear.