I swear, if some of you knew how many foreign owned companies are right now operating in the U.S., you might lose your lunch! Or, how many ships under foreign registration enter ports in the U.S. every damn day?
We would never need to "blow them to hell" if they didn't control the canal in the first place.
Owning a company in the U.S. and entering our ports are NOT the same as controlling access into and out of our country. It's the fox guarding the hen-house.