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<blockquote data-quote="oldslowandugly" data-source="post: 1034713" data-attributes="member: 659">Interesting history there. We have not been so innocent.&quot;After years of negotiations for a new Panama Canal treaty, agreement was reached between the United States and Panama in 1977. Signed on September 7, 1977, the treaty recognized Panama as the territorial sovereign in the Canal Zone but gave the United States the right to continue operating the canal until December 31, 1999&quot;<a href="https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/panama-to-control-canal" target="_blank">https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/panama-to-control-canal</a>Captain Bonespurs would be invading a sovereign nation, with every right to defend itself, and we don't know if any other world power might object to our move. It's another 'sounded like a good idea at the time' thing, after we get mired in shit again. Did I mention it is a jungle zone with malaria and other fun things?Funny how draft dodgers turn into billy bad-ass after they are too old to serve. I'm looking at you Shrub, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Bolton, Frump. In the 60's we called them Chicken Hawks. Chicken to serve when young, Hawks after they are too old. Shit never changes.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="oldslowandugly, post: 1034713, member: 659"] Interesting history there. We have not been so innocent. "After years of negotiations for a new Panama Canal treaty, agreement was reached between the United States and Panama in 1977. Signed on September 7, 1977, the treaty recognized Panama as the territorial sovereign in the Canal Zone but gave the United States the right to continue operating the canal until December 31, 1999" [URL]https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/panama-to-control-canal[/URL] Captain Bonespurs would be invading a sovereign nation, with every right to defend itself, and we don't know if any other world power might object to our move. It's another 'sounded like a good idea at the time' thing, after we get mired in shit again. Did I mention it is a jungle zone with malaria and other fun things? Funny how draft dodgers turn into billy bad-ass after they are too old to serve. I'm looking at you Shrub, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Bolton, Frump. In the 60's we called them Chicken Hawks. Chicken to serve when young, Hawks after they are too old. Shit never changes. [/QUOTE]

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