We Dug It, We Own It
In 1978, the Carter administration made a deal with General Omar Torrijos, the uniformed socialist strongman who had seized power in Panama, to abandon America’s crown jewel...
Jimmy Carter had run for office promising to oppose a surrender of the canal. As with most of his policies, he turned out to have been lying...
America lost the canal but it also bid goodbye to Jimmy Carter.
The Panama Canal treaty was similarly unpopular in Panama...
The surrender of the Panama Canal had been based on worthless assurances that America would retain strategic control over it...
China for all intents and purposes controls the Panama Canal, the ports around it and the local infrastructure that makes international trade possible. The canal is essentially Chinese property...
That gives us every reason we need to take what we built back from Communist China.
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Reagan Was Right About Panama Canal. So Is Trump. by Jarrett Stepman, Taily Signal, 30 December 2024.