He makes some good points, but I’m not ready to take back the canal by force.
we should have been given free use of the canal forever for turning it over.
With MAGA, within five years there should be little need for ships laden with Chinese-made chattels to pass through the Panama Canal bound for Gulf and Atlantic ports in the USA.
Surrendering the canal was the eventual result of our support of Egypt during the Suez crisis. Keeping Panama after forcing the British to give up Suez made us look like hypocrites.
We’re not getting the canal back, even if by treaty we would be entitled to have it back.
The U.S. did so by supporting rebels who sought to secede from Columbia.
Kinda hypocritical of the U.S. to do so, after suppressing its own Confederate secession effort less than 40 years earlier.
Xi would be happy to provide Chinese military forces to stop Trump’s plans.
Never cause or increase animosity to no possible avail.
Except we LEASED it. And we let the lease expire (which admittedly we shouldn’t have, but we did).
Also we DIDN’T expand it in the 2010s. So the “we dug it” argument got seriously post dated.
Carter did not meet a tin-pot commie dictator he didn’t love
He gave th canal to Torijos, he stabbed Augusto Pinochet in Chile in the back, he backed the Sandinistas when they overthrew Somoza in Nicaragua. He allowed Castro to carry out the Mariel boat lift, in which Castro sent us the USA every prisoner and criminal in Cuba. He and Andrew Young destroyed Rhodesia and paved the way for Mugabe to take over and form Rhodesia. He threatened troop withdrawals from Korea because he couldn’t manipulate Park Chung Hee, to the point where Japan, South Korea and Taiwan had to complain and warn the US about an invasion from North Korea.
is panama in a position to stop the illegal alien invaders?
is the darrien gap in panama?
is Trump negotiating a deal here
and this is his opening gambit
Carter gave away the Panama Canal. So, according to many FReepers, he is the 3rd worst president ever.
Behind Biden and Bammie.
(sheesh)
Defending east Asian allies from Chinese aggression is best done by selling those countries US weapons.
The US should seek to train our Asian allies in the use of the weapons in far greater quantities than they buy, so the countries can make quick use of new shipments.
US Navy surface ships within 500 miles of China probably can’t survive PRC attacks. Much of the Russian navy Black Sea fleet will never leave the bottom of the Black Sea.
I still remember a popular bumper sticker from then.
“JIMMY CARTER! The Best President PANAMA Ever Had!”
I was there for five years, 1985-1989.
The treaty was not popular with most Panamanians I communicated with. They knew their government was corrupt. They knew the management of the Canal would be corrupted.
They mostly liked Americans.
I am a conservative although I don’t like to call myself a conservative because it has been misappropriated by so many globalists in the Republican wing of the Uniparty.
The giveaway of the Panama Canal was the defining moment in my ideological disposition.
I NEVER liked the poseur Billy Buckley or his National Review.
I’ll never forget when Phyllis Schafly had the balls to take on that Eastern establishment effete snob Buckley on his signature program the Firing Line.
She spanked him good over his position siding with Jimmah on his giveaway of the canal.
Phyllis was from the heartland and although she had the intellectual skills to do battle with the likes of Buckley and the National Review snobs, her conservatism was rooted in old fashioned Midwestern values as was Rush Limbaugh’s.
Unfortunately, Rush gave too much cred to the National Review crew and for whatever reasons not the credit due his fellow Missourian.
Too Schafly’s credit she jumped on the Trump train very early unlike the National Review which became a bastion for Never Trumpers and what’s left of it still is.
The debate over Carter’s giveaway EXPOSED the globalists in the Republican wing of the Uniparty pretending to be America First conservatives.
“Jimmy Carter had run for office promising to oppose a surrender of the canal”
People say Jimmah was a good guy, but he is much like Biden.
And with decades to reflect on his judgement and seeing the results, Jimmah still voted Democrat and then transitioned seamlessly to commie (voting Biden and Kamala).
Jimmah was a bad dude. Bad to the bone. I’m gonna have a party on the 9th. I got that day off, woo hoo!.
“in the process they created a new country, Panama”
Translation, they took a piece of an already existing country, Colombia.
Democrats always lie. Carter was a turd. Everything he touched went bad.