[SWAMPSNIPER]

[expat_panama]

Todd’s article is supposed to be based on the report from the State Dept., but that report gives an entirely different picture of Panama’s cooperation than what Todd’s giving us.

Maybe he’s trying to get an job working for CNN or something.

[lentulusgracchus]

... our political and diplomatic leadership may well start to ask themselves: with friends like Panama and Mexico, who needs enemies?

Mexico has not been our friend since 1830 at least, or whenever it was that Santa Anna and his misogringist creole friends took over the leadership of Mexican society from the republicans.

The intellectuals of Mexico City have been acutely inimical since the 1919 revolution. People's Exhibit A: The murals of Jorge Rivera, in which Spaniards and Americans are uniformly demonized.