Posted on 11/02/2005 1:27:48 PM PST by Mr. Mojo
Thanks, Peanut Brain.
China has absolutely zero power projection ability outside of Asia. If we wanted to take the canal by force, we could do it in a matter of hours.
What a paranoid article. When was that written, 5 years ago?
Chinese, illegal aliens at the time, helped build the first Transcontinental Railroad. Since the purpose of the Railroad was to open a trade route to China, it seems to have worked out. The Canal and New Orleans came to dominate trade. Air freight is coming along now, so that the canal isn't much of a choke point.
Looks like 1998-9. And this was under Clinton so the paranoia is very understandable.
We could take it but then we would have a wrcked canal. Which is still loads better than letting the Chinese having it available in a war.
Another Carter idiocy that will bite us.
Thank you Jimmy Carter!!! Anyone want to elect another Communist for President -- vote third party -- it could happen and the next one may just give away the whole USA to the commies.
Power projection ability begins with thermonuclear weapons, undoubtedly on-site and armed in Panama.
That's right... if we go to war over Taiwan they block us at the Panama and we have to go around... or ship everything to the West Coast then they gain the upper hand...
Well, think again. As recently as 2003, the Communist front company Hutchison Wampoa hired none other than Richard Perle -- who was chairman of the Pentagon's Defense Policy Board at the time -- to lobby the U.S. Department of Defense for a DOD waiver when the company was trying to purchase the trans-Pacific fiber-optic assets of Global Crossing.
Call me cynical, but stories like this are why I'll never trust anyone in government.
Again, special thanks go out to another democrat for screwing our national security, Jimmy Carter, a total loser.
The Panama Canal is currently of extremely limited importance to the US Navy strategically; this isn't World War II.
Carriers are too big to pass through it anyway, and those are the key mobile assets to the US Navy.
When was that written, 5 years ago?-------Bout same time COSCO was trying for the base at Long Beach,Kalifornicate?
Issue Date: October 31, 2005
Well if we have trouble with access to the canal. I am sure we will sieze it.
Spell the name of my state correctly, a$$hat.
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