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Originally posted by KillerYoda
Never tried to imply the US was an "evil economically driven country, I just knew off the top of my head that Panama did have some American interest, unlike the wonderfully nice humanitarian effort you described.
My point was proven, there were indeed interests in Panama, and I can be as lazy as I want, I'm American.
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If we had any interest in Panama we would not have pulled out of it. The original purpose of the canal was to allow the US to have a two ocean navy but only one fleet - this because of it taking so long to move ships during the Spanish-American War. The canal ceased to be useful so far as the navy transitting the canal a long time ago - it isn't big enough for most of the capitol ships - the only ones using now it are auxiliary ships and from frigates down. And in the above quote you are correct about one thing. The US did have interests in Panama - "did" seems to be the operative word however.
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