Comments by "MarcosElMalo2" (@MarcosElMalo2) on "Military History Visualized"
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D MO Interesting point, but that wasn’t the strategic object. It was all about the canal, and not letting it fall into the hands of drug trafficker/drug addict. The Panama Canal has a huge strategic importance.
Now, I fully believe that Noriega was paid by the CIA for various things, but he became unreliable. A threat, really, to CIA shenanigans in Central and South America, if Noriega was threatening to expose what he knew. So when an ex-CIA director became president, it was time to clean up some messes that would have been very embarrassing to the U.S. government in general and the CIA specifically. There’s a lot of circumstantial evidence for this (including the fact that Noriega was making the threats publicly), so I’d count it as the second objective of the campaign. Still, #1 was protecting the canal.
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