I don't believe my comment is missing anything. I was writing about some nostalgia and how I'm impressed with the efforts of Panama. I never implied or sugges

I don't believe my comment is missing anything. I was writing about some nostalgia and how I'm impressed with the efforts of Panama. I never implied or suggested that Panama has no problems. Just that they've done much better than I thought they would. Besides, the U.S. was a major supporter of the PDF before Noriega and at the beginning of his power. We had no qualms dealing with Torrijos or with PDF intervention in national politics. So long as the dictator was still on our side we were fine with it. Lots of civilians died in El Chorillo. It's ok for people to mourn their loss. There were bad and stupid decisions on both sides during those days.