US is building two naval bases in Panama.

The US is building two naval bases in Panama. I missed this development until yesterday as did many news sources I regularly  check. Here is a nice opinion piece on it.

http://www.thepanamanews.com/pn/v_15/issue_16/opinion_03.html

Then there is this article:

http://www.articlesbase.com/online-business-articles/us-navy-bases-in-pa...

Which really gets into the ludicrous nature of the whole thing. These bases should be as resoundedly condemned as the ones in Colombia.