Posted on 11/02/2005 1:27:48 PM PST by Mr. Mojo
when was this published? clearly Clinton couldn't have replaced an Ambassador who made statements 3 years ago. And, for that matter, Adm. Moorer died over a year ago.
This was litigated up to the Supreme Court on 12/31/99, the day of the turnover of the Canal to Panama.
Hell if I know, but it's published in the Oct. 31, 2005 issue of Insight Mag., and there's no mention of a previous pub. date.
There is significant militatry meaning to the canal to this day. If a major conflict broke out in the Western Pacific, a lot of ships, men and material would be transfered from bases and duty stations in the Atlantic to the Pacific (or vice versa).
Without the canal...ALL of that would have to go around South America. Which would add significant time and danger to the transfer and reinforcement over the long haul.
Didn't Carter have a democratic congress?
Add Hugo Chavez, Daniel Ortega, Fidel Castro, and an authoritian Russia to the mix, and you have lots of fun.
Or in Baltimore, Boston, and all the other US cities where the China Ocean Shipping (Group) Company (COSCO) has warehouses...
http://www.cosco-usa.com/about/aboutCCLA.htm
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Select Office Below
Extremely unlikely. Considering the Chinese already have "bases" in sensitive ports like Secaucus and Long Beach, they have a better access to wreck US ports of entry. In addition, the Panamanians are the ones controlling the Panama Canal, as you may have noticed during your last visit to Panama....
U.S. President Bush, right, crosses the Panama Canal as he tours Miraflores Locks with Panama's President Martin Torrijos, in Panama City Monday, Nov. 7, 2005. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)
U.S. President George W. Bush (3rd L) and first lady Laura Bush (2nd R), are given a tour by Panama President Martin Torrijos (2nd L) of the Miraflores Locks at the Panama Canal in Panama City, Panama, November 7, 2005. (L to R) Panama first lady Vivian Fernandez de Torrijos, Torrijos, Bush, Administrator of the Panama Canal Alberto Aleman Zubieta, Panama Minister of Economy and Finances Ricaurte Vasquez, and Laura Bush. Bush said on Monday the United States and Panama were close to completing a free trade agreement as he ended a Latin American tour that fell short of his goal of reviving talks on a hemispheric-wide trade zone. Bush wrapped up his trip to Argentina, Brazil and Panama with a visit to the Miraflores lock of the Panama Canal, nearly 99 years after Theodore Roosevelt came in 1906 to see the canal construction in the first visit abroad by a U.S. president. REUTERS/Larry Downing
"Well if we have trouble with access to the canal. I am sure we will sieze it."
Before or after Canal infrastructure are destroyed?
And?? Do you suspect the Canal would not be usable for a long time???
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