Number two ... judging from your post to me and your other posts on this thread ... you may be on the wrong site
At best you're a rude newbie ... edging on troll
Rude for showing some backbone ? Read my quote from A. Lincoln on the topic......
What kind of Free Republic demands hewing to the party line on all subjects ? Im a gun owner, business owner, strong advocate of a strong defense, I think the UN can bite me, I think taxes are way to high etc. etc.
But since I trust science and think life begins when the brain becomes active, and that we should be careful who we call traitors, that I should be off the site ?
I dont think thats what the founders of this place had in mind, and by that, I mean FR.com
As regards the canal treaty, its been no problem for us. Everyone knows in a major war it would be nuked in a moment, and we have saved billions already by handing it over, and there aint no way we arent going to use it whenever we want as long as its there, so whats the big hubub ?