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2006-06-02 Southeast Asia

Indonesia wants US to stay away from Asia's anti-terror fight

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Posted by Fred 2006-06-02 00:00|| || Front Page|| [2 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Fat chance the USA will obey - Indonesia unfortunately has a long history of quietly repressing non-Muslim ethnic groups or communities, and has made no qualms about desiring to unify wid the Philippines and other regional areas under Islam.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2006-06-02 02:03|| 2006-06-02 02:03|| Front Page Top

#2 If the Regional authorities would do the job, there would be no reason for Rumsfeld or anyone in the USA to get involved. The US would prefer that local authorities handle these problems that have worldwide implications, themselves. Unfortunately, seldomly does this happen, more due to political pressures than any duty driven factors. The writer is a US citizen with 30 years of experience living and working overseas and has never been a US Government employee.

Posted by Patriot 1 2006-06-02 07:47|| 2006-06-02 07:47|| Front Page Top

#3 rhetoric for the street.

Im sure in private theyre eager for weapons and intell.

Posted by liberalhawk 2006-06-02 09:08|| 2006-06-02 09:08|| Front Page Top

#4 Im sure in private theyre eager for weapons and intell.

To pass along to the jihadis.

Posted by Rob Crawford">Rob Crawford 2006-06-02 10:51|| http://www.kloognome.com/]">[http://www.kloognome.com/] 2006-06-02 10:51|| Front Page Top

#5 Message from fox to farmer:

Stay out of the hen house.

Posted by Zenster 2006-06-02 19:42|| 2006-06-02 19:42|| Front Page Top

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