Subject: Re: Diego Garcia
both the canal and Diego Garcia are vital to US national security.

Yes they are. So are Canada and Greenland.

In the same way that Ukraine is vital to Russian national security, or the Ruhr Valley and Baku oil fields were vital to German security in 1940.

Hopefully we wont choose the solution that Russia and Germany chose, just as we pray and attempt to discourage China from choosing that same solution as regards its national security interest in Taiwan.