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2004-07-16 Southeast Asia

NYT: Philippines Viewed as Being Forced to Yield on Hostage

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Posted by .com 2004-07-16 12:11:22 AM|| || Front Page|| [3 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Mrs. Arroyo's country will continue to have it's hand out to the US and expect support even after this. Screw them. We should have let the Japanese army keep them.

Kiss my rosey red rear end, no more aid to the Philippines. Let the JI and MILF have them.
Cowards/

Posted by FlameBait93268 2004-07-16 12:36:36 AM|| 2004-07-16 12:36:36 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 Um, no, the Phillipines sits too close to important trade routes to let that happen.

Posted by Steve White 2004-07-16 12:43:21 AM|| 2004-07-16 12:43:21 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 Well we can't base our Navy or Airforce there anymore so whats the BFD with cutting them loose?

Posted by FlameBait93268 2004-07-16 12:45:58 AM|| 2004-07-16 12:45:58 AM|| Front Page Top

#4 It does show that we live in interesting times. But very sad.

Much has been said about this but, again, Latino weakness when solidarity is the best head, almost Gailic, no. Oh Rome!

Posted by Lucky 2004-07-16 2:30:33 AM|| 2004-07-16 2:30:33 AM|| Front Page Top

#5 i dont think we want to see ANY state fall to the Islamofascists, giving them save haven, training camps, etc. If that happened wed have to invade, or at least bomb regularly - its probably a more economical use of our forces to keep providing aid.

Im sure there are other areas where we can "punish" those who dont contribute in Iraq.

Posted by Liberalhawk 2004-07-16 10:07:21 AM|| 2004-07-16 10:07:21 AM|| Front Page Top

#6 LH: i dont think we want to see ANY state fall to the Islamofascists

A power vacuum in the area would be fun to watch, but probably not fun to live through, for the people in the region. Would Malaysia / Indonesia be interested in adding the Philippines archipelago to to their holdings? Sure - but in the absence of Uncle Sam, they would still have to worry about the Chinese response - i.e. the Chinese would probably want a piece of the action. And what would be the Japanese and Korean response to China and Malaysia / Indonesia? Hey, let's pull the troops out from Korea and Japan and find out...

Posted by Zhang Fei 2004-07-16 3:00:05 PM|| 2004-07-16 3:00:05 PM|| Front Page Top

#7 Mrs. Arroyo's is the Philippine version of John Kerry in my opinion.

Posted by CrazyFool 2004-07-16 3:46:31 PM|| 2004-07-16 3:46:31 PM|| Front Page Top

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