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Take a good long look at the map of the panama canal and you'll see something quite ironic. The Panama Canal zone is not much further from the U.S. border than, Cuba. BUT, when President Kennedy saw a communist foreign power propping up a puppet government in Cuba and arming that government with nuclear capability, He stepped forward and demanded the removal of that capability. Now, however, we have a very similar situation taking place and nothing is being done.
Consider that nuclear devices can now be stored in a brief case and that the canal is a vital trading and defense point. How is it that the U.S. can now turn a blind eye to such danger?
While apathy may have been taught in the classrooms, projected onto our viewing screens and preached to us on our airwaves, China is anything but ambivalent towards the United States. Dr. Michael Pillsbury, of the National Defense University, an expert
on communist China, stated to the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence in September 1997, that the Chinese military have written extensively about their intention "to defeat the United States". And yet we have nothing to fear...
In an interview with New American Magazine, March 29, 1999, Admiral Thomas H. Moorer, former chairman of the Joint Cheifs of Staff said, "In 1996, while China was illegally pouring millions of dollars into Clinton's re-election effort, it was also funneling huge amounts of cash to Panamanian politicians to ensure that one of its front companies, Hutchison Whampoa of Hong Kong, could move in and vacate. In 1997, Panama secretly turned over the American built port facilities at Balboa, which controls shipping on the Pacific side,and at Cristobal, which controls shipping on the atlantic side to Hutchison. Over the next several months we are scheduled to turn over Rodman Naval Station, Howard ->