At 10:16 AM 5/17/2002 -0500 Dan Minette wrote: >Well, it wasn't our store, by rights. We did invest in the canal, but the >benefits to the US ecconomy over the 75 years or so that we owned it were >enough to ensure that it was a worthwhile investment, even if we >relinquished the canal without any strings.
And haven't the benefits to the Panamanian economy over the past 75 years made giving up a fairly worthless piece of jungle to another country a worthwhile investment in their own independence? JDG
