Re: OT: German editorial on war on terror

Dnia 2007-03-02 JMW napisał(a):
Lucas Buck <sbcp...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

We "used" Panama?

Hell, we CREATED Panama. We funded their independence from Colombia in
return for first dibs on the Canal Zone, for which we ALSO paid rent at well over
market value.

Carter "gave the Canal Zone back to Panama"... he was too stupid to realize that
to give it "back" would mean giving it back to *Colombia

You'll have to forgive Andrzej. He's one of those Eastern Eurpoean
romanticists who believes that his country walked away from Soviet
domination by the sheer will of its good people, and that the USA
didn't have anything to do with it.

I'm not one of those, and Poles in general are probably the most
pro-American nation in Europe. But what does it change when discussing
recent bloopers?

--
Andrzej Rosa 1127R
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