Posted on 01/04/2025 7:27:56 AM PST by Rev M. Bresciani
In 1978, the Carter administration made a deal with General Omar Torrijos, the uniformed socialist strongman who had seized power in Panama, to abandon America’s crown jewel.
The Panama Canal had been built with over a decade of labor and half a billion of early twentieth century dollars by American engineers and visionaries who succeeded where the British and the French had failed, in the process they created a new country, Panama, and new trade routes.
Jimmy Carter had run for office promising to oppose a surrender of the canal. As with most of his policies, he turned out to have been lying.
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He makes some good points, but I’m not ready to take back the canal by force.
Take over the country by installing a favorable government, and then no force is necessary. We have done it multiple times in the past.
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.
So-called "force"is just one of the many tools in the bag.
And that's a good thing?
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)
the U.K handed over Hong Kong and that really worked out well. White people are amazing regarding a lot of things, especially managing and science- related problems but we duck at common sense.
Don’t forget that he withdrew support for Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi (the Shah of Iran), opening the door for what the world has had to endure for the the last 40 years.
Hong Kong was leased. Lease expired. Common sense says follow the law.
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.
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