Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: rbowman Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy Subject: Re: RIP Jimmy Carter (Off Topic) Date: 30 Dec 2024 18:56:17 GMT Lines: 20 Message-ID: References: <3GycP.183254$DYF8.58502@fx14.iad> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net dqpOseZSc6HGcHbXo0XbYAZFyDom5FK6qvqjj48lZvOAscQ087 Cancel-Lock: sha1:hscvk63aMCttTdLrzjJjF2GZNeI= sha256:Ks2fjZgo52em1a7QRCSVlEhAKLnyCcUAhYi8dzO7HJE= User-Agent: Pan/0.149 (Bellevue; 4c157ba) Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.advocacy:681759 On Mon, 30 Dec 2024 10:06:39 -0500, Andrzej Matuch wrote: > Before it was brought up by President Trump, I had no idea Jimmy Carter > gave away authority over the Panama Canal. I already thought that he was > the dumbest human being after Joe Biden, but this just bumped him up to > the biggest cretin the White House has ever seen. There is some history there. Panama was part of Columbia but when a treaty fell apart in 1903 the US supported the brave freedom fighters in their revolt against Columbia and the achieved independence. The US has been plagued by desperately wanting to be an empire without having the appearance of being an imperialist nation. Sometimes the scheme doesn't work and it wound up with an albatross like Puerto Rico. Still, it was a mistake giving away the Canal Zone. Torrijos and later Noriega were supposed to keep a lid on it. To his defense Carter inherited a huge bag of shit from the Nixon/Ford handling of the inflation brought about by the oil embargo.