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Originally Posted by cmac2012
Oh dear, my credibiliy in ruins. Oh boo hoo.
OK, I'll grant you my lapse in following current events in Panama if you'll take a look at the international body of opinion that accused us of heavy handed tactics in a bid to alter the eventual giving over of the canal.
It wasn't just that one movie that made those claims. Take a look at yourself. How does the line in the bible go, something about blanching at gnats but winking at camels? Nothing we do that detracts from the rights and prosperity of tiny nations is of any matter yet any and every affront to us is just cause for a military pounding. Gonna bust hell wide open.
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Hell yeah there were heavy-handed tactics. It started with Teddy Roosevelt engineering a "revolution" to establish a nation called, Panama, which immediately ceded a significant portion fo it's sovereign territory to (guess who) the USA on a 99 year lease. If that ain't shady, ain't nuthin' shady. Then there's the various coups we've engineered in several latin American countires every decade since. Both major parties were equal-opportunity belligerents, so don't try to hide behind the "it was them!" BS. It was the USA--your mammy and pappy and mine.
So what? Should I thrash myself with a cat-'o'-nine? Beg forgiveness from camposinos? I know, I'll acknowledge our mis-deeds and swear (but NOT on a Bible) to never do it again.
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