NORTHWEST PASSAGE THE ISSUE: CANADA TALKS ABOUT ENFORCING ITS CLAIM. THE JOURNAL'S VIEW: NEIGHBOR MAY BENEFIT MORE WITH COOPERATION.

From: Evansville Courier & Press (2007-Current) | Date: August 17, 2007 | Copyright information

"The sea is the great common." So said Alfred Thayer Mahan, founder of the U.S. Naval War College and chief visionary of what has been the U.S. Navy's core mission since the war against the Barbary Pirates, in North Africa, during the presidency of Thomas Jefferson: ensuring free passage of the seas.

Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper recently proposed spending $3 billion to build a fleet of heavy, and heavily armed, icebreakers, along with a deepwater Arctic port, to enforce Canad...

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