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Trump is bungling his way though his 2nd week. Can’t wait for week 3.
I would expect there to be some outrage around here over private citizen Leon Mush taking so much control of the government. It’s interesting that Mush’s big customer, China, world supplier of fentanyl, only got a 10% tariff. Crony capitalism?
Only at Fitsnews could the brain trust believe that the only source for history is monuments. Get back to me when these things called “history books” are deleted.
Panama expanded the canal, and the US paid nothing towards it. Leave it to Fits to leave out pertinent facts.
Nanker, Nanker, Nanker, “Panama expanded the canal” iis a bit of sophistry, yes they did expand and add some of the locks to allow larger ships through but there would have been nothing to expand were it not for America’s blood sweat and treasury.
The French worked for 18 years accomplishing nothing but killing a lot of Frenchman, Panamanians and trees. In 10 Years, Americans developed a plan, executed it and along the way came up with a method to deal with malaria causing mosquitos. From 1914-1977, America upgraded, maintained an managed the canal. Then Jimmy Carter gave it away – one of his dumbest moves in a lonnnnnnggggg list of dumb moves (for the record, Jimmy was the first presidential vote i ever cast.) Panama owned the canal for more than 15 years before they bothered to do any real work to it.
Bragg was an idiot, not worthy of remembering as a fort but Liberty is a stupid name for Bragg. Troops generally refer to it as Bragg or, surprising no one at all, Liberty Biberty… Hal Moore is deserving of the honor and Benning wasn’t all that swift of a leader either. Gregg-Adams is one of the better names for our forts but there was nothing wrong with Lee and using two different peoples names (both South Carolinians btw) is kind of stupid. Eisenhower was a good call as Gordon, though a great combat leader, was a racist of unmatched vehemence and a lousy gubernor of Georgia. I’d love to know what all the renaming really cost – I’d guess $100,000,000 or more.
The McKinley/Denali and Gulf of America thing is pure stupidity but I get it, Trump’s trying to roll back 4 years of liberal stupidity. Congress needs to pass a law to end all the naming stupidity (from both sides) .
One of the smarter things the Dems have done post their November ass whipping was dump Harrison.
Colonel, Colonel, Colonel, you know the original Canal Treaty was negotiated with the barrel of our gun to the head of the Panamanians. They had just achieved independence from Colombia, and we said we would support Colombia retaking the territory if Panama did not sign the treaty we wanted.
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There is no and. It’s just a moral and ethical point. It’s accurate history for the future to judge. Jimmy Carter was a man of principle with a deep sense of justice. In my opinion, he is probably the most Christian man ever to occupy the office of President. Trump is the exact opposite. Just say you agree with Trump that we should use our military power to do whatever we want to whomever we want. It’s foolish to attempt to justify anything we have done in Panama. Whatever we did, we did for our benefit with no consideration for the people of Panama or anyone else. Panama owes us nothing. There was never a real agreement or valid treaty. It is a fundamental principle of the law of any civilized country that a contract under duress is not a valid contract.
So, like the Emperors of old, Trump will exact what tribute he can from those of lesser power, and America will cede our moral leadership of the world. I think that is a huge mistake, it will cost us our allies and leave us friendless. I mean, it takes a lot to get the Canadians to boo your National Anthem, but that is the choice we have made. Locked in a prison of our own or should I say Trump’s making.