To: Jeff Head
"The canal could be defended by the US..."
I am not sure I agree. The canal is so fragile mechanically (locks, dams) that it is hard to conceive of china not finding some way to do damage if that was their desire no matter what sort of hardware we had in the region. Heck, a traffic route runs 50-100 yards from the northeast chamber of Pedro Miguel. A road runs THROUGH gatun lock's north chamber.
"particularly the Chinese, are in a position now to militarily hurt us by denying it to us. That is all."
Agreed on the status-quo.
To: WoofDog123
Note my prior comment:
presuming we had the control of enough land, air and sea space around it
With that in mind, if we wanted to secure it, we would alleviate the issues you spoke of. But we have chosen to go the other direction.
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