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Re: RIP Jimmy Carter (Off Topic)

From rbowman <bowman@montana.com>
Newsgroups comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject Re: RIP Jimmy Carter (Off Topic)
Date 2024-12-30 18:56 +0000
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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.

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RIP Jimmy Carter (Off Topic) RonB <ronb02NOSPAM@gmail.com> - 2024-12-30 07:14 +0000
  Re: RIP Jimmy Carter (Off Topic) chrisv <chrisv@nospam.invalid> - 2024-12-30 07:14 -0600
  Re: RIP Jimmy Carter (Off Topic) Andrzej Matuch <andrzej@matu.ch> - 2024-12-30 10:06 -0500
    Re: RIP Jimmy Carter (Off Topic) rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2024-12-30 18:56 +0000
      Re: RIP Jimmy Carter (Off Topic) % <pursent100@gmail.com> - 2024-12-30 11:58 -0700
      Re: RIP Jimmy Carter (Off Topic) Andrzej Matuch <andrzej@matu.ch> - 2024-12-30 15:29 -0500
        Re: RIP Jimmy Carter (Off Topic) rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2024-12-31 02:23 +0000
          Re: RIP Jimmy Carter (Off Topic) Andrzej Matuch <andrzej@matu.ch> - 2024-12-31 08:36 -0500
          Re: RIP Jimmy Carter (Off Topic) Physfitfreak <physfitfreak@gmail.com> - 2024-12-31 23:09 -0600
    Re: RIP Jimmy Carter (Off Topic) RonB <ronb02NOSPAM@gmail.com> - 2024-12-31 07:31 +0000

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