The Philippines soon to be caught in another Death Trap

[Tim/Mav 305]

The US Economy is Running scared. Our resourses rely on other nations that affect our economy and they are Quite Frankly not worried. China, Japan and the list goes on. They are watching us BURY ourselves. So the US decides to put our Military in the Philippines again. These people are caught in the middle.

We let them down as our Allies before. (McAuthor I will return) After how many were Murdered. I don't see why they would trust us again.

Look at the News. War is going to happen on a large scale and if you don't see that coming then crawl in a blanket and hide later.

The US is using a Political Strategy using the Philippines again because it is a Life-Line to Overseas Operations Land and Air.

So what do you Think ? No Offense to other Nations (China, Japan Citizens.) Just as the US is CORRUPT so are Politicle Powers of other Nations/Countries.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dSdMJD49hFU&feature=autoplay&list=UU8p1vwvWtl6T73JiExfWs1g&lf=plcp&playnext=2

[mawilson 2,133]

[I AM NOT THAT GUY 5,715]

Well, little Ninoy Aquino wants to be like Ferdinand Marcos. The Aquino's have the corruption thing going well, you know, things like land reform that applies to everyone but the Aquino's holdings in the Philippines. Now, if can only get the US Military to help him wipe-out all the Muslim separatists, he can parade around like a PX warrior on Sunday.

[Bad_Daddy 2,209]

The US can't just decide to put a military base in the Phillipines without permission from the government there. Anyone remember Subic Bay naval base? They wanted it out even though it put a crunch on the economy there and we abandoned it. That country is a basket case for more reasons than what the US ever did or did not do.

Edited January 30, 2012 by Why_Me

[I AM NOT THAT GUY 5,715]

Well, little Ninoy Aquino wants to be like Ferdinand Marcos. The Aquino's have the corruption thing going well, you know, things like land reform that applies to everyone but the Aquino's holdings in the Philippines. Now, if can only get the US Military to help him wipe-out all the Muslim separatists, he can parade around like a PX warrior on Sunday.

Noynoy, not Ninoy.

[natty bumppo 297]

Ninoy, or not to Noynoy ... that is the question ...

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[I AM NOT THAT GUY 5,715]

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[I AM NOT THAT GUY 5,715]

Fighting corruption, Filipino style, by arresting your predecessor when your standing in the polls takes a plunge.

Processional for presidents

“THIS is just the start of the process.” Fearsome words from the sitting president, Benigno “Noynoy” Aquino, on the occasion of police arresting Gloria Arroyo, his predecessor as president, on November 18th. The process he had in mind was the eradication of corruption—quite a big promise to make, which he did while campaigning for the presidency last year.

A court issued a warrant for Mrs Arroyo on a charge of having rigged congressional elections in 2007, when she still held the presidency. Further charges, for corruption while in office, may follow. She denies any wrongdoing. Police served their warrant on Mrs Arroyo while she was in hospital; she had been admitted after the government prevented her from leaving the country for the treatment of a problem with her neck. She remains in hospital, now under detention.

Mr Aquino said Mrs Arroyo’s prosecution was the result of reforms he has made towards combating corruption. “The principle behind these reforms is that the guilty must be made accountable,” he said. What reforms he was talking about however is unclear. The president has done nothing to reform the same institutions that have already proved ineffective in curbing corruption. Indeed, he is using those very institutions to prosecute Mrs Arroyo.

By those ineffective means, the government has taken more than 16 months to put the former president in custody. The circumstances of her arrest may indicate that the government was getting desperate. It managed to stop her leaving the country only by ignoring an order from the Supreme Court that left her free to travel on the grounds that, at the time, she had not been charged with any offence. The authorities may come to regret their subsequent haste in bringing the election-fraud charge. Their haste might have entailed procedural flaws of the sort that may yet be the undoing of her case.

Apart from being legally questionable, the government’s approach may have a political cost. Mrs Arroyo was exceptionally unpopular while in office, but live television coverage of her waiting at the airport in a wheelchair, wearing a contraption for propping up her head up on her weakened neck, conveyed the image not of a criminal on the run, but of a sad 64-year-old denied the chance of treatment of a potentially crippling illness by a heartless government playing fast and loose with the law.

Not many will forget that Mr Aquino’s election campaign slogan was “If there’s no corruption, there’s no poverty”. Voters accepted his offer to cure at a single stroke what many regard as the country’s two main curses. Opinion polls indicate that he remains popular. But if the big idea is that putting Mrs Arroyo behind bars will somehow deter corruption thereafter and everywhere, it represents an exceedingly unlikely solution.

It’s an approach that has been tried before. A court sentenced another ex-president, Joseph Estrada, to life in prison—in his case, for corruption while in office. Mr Estrada was granted a pardon by his successor: Mrs Arroyo. Last year he ran again for president, and came second to Mr Aquino. In part he owed that success to the fact that many voters saw in him not so much a criminal who got away with it, but a sad old man who had been persecuted by a hypocritical president.

http://www.economist.com/blogs/banyan/2011/11/fighting-corruption-philippines

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[Deputy Purple 1,294]

I don't get how you blame the Japanese invasion of the Philippines in WWII on the US, they were coming despite our presence. The Japanese military leaders had decided that Japan should be THE IMPERIAL POWER CONTROLLING ALL OF ASIA and were set on occupation and dominance through military might at all costs. To control the region they needed to control everything, not just the resource rich areas but also the trade routes and all points in between. The Philippines is ideally located within South-East Asia which is exactly why the Spanish were there before the US, the Japanese came in WWII and the US remained there even after Vietnam...

Unless I'm forgetting something we lost a lot of good men during the initial invasion, the occupation and the liberation of The Philippines in WWII.

I do agree that the Middle East is about to explode but I don't think it's fair to place the sole blame on the US. There has been a lot of outside influence in those countries since the discovery & dependence on oil which has launched them from nomadic camel herders (no offense intended) into the modern era in way too short of a time.

Edited January 30, 2012 by Bob 4 Anna

[Azzudiin 26]

What war in Asia is coming?

US vs China would be laughable, I don't care how good your 6 man seal teams are, they don't have enough bullets to stop millions of Chinese charging them. Not to mention we would have to pay our overdue debt before China would risk a war.

US vs Australia maybe?

That one would be who has the better beer and when everyone passed out from taste testing it would be over

US vs Myanmar aka Burma?

Ok yes we need a base in the Phillipines for this one, someplace to house the one policeman and his attack dog, thats about all it would take to fight Burmamar

US vs Japan?

Not likely, Japan is dying from lack of sex, 1,000,000 less people every year. Wait a few years and its ours anyway.

Ahhh now I remember US vs North Korea?

This would be easy, build catapults, lob frozen pizza's over the no mans land and every North Korean soldier would drop their weapons and start shouting "FOOD FOOD, Thanks Italy"

[I AM NOT THAT GUY 5,715]

US vs Japan?

Not likely, Japan is dying from lack of sex, 1,000,000 less people every year. Wait a few years and its ours anyway.

I watched Real Sex last night. That is messed up!

[BobnCherry 10]

I don't get how you blame the Japanese invasion of the Philippines in WWII on the US, they were coming despite our presence. The Japanese military leaders had decided that Japan should be THE IMPERIAL POWER CONTROLLING ALL OF ASIA and were set on occupation and dominance through military might at all costs. To control the region they needed to control everything, not just the resource rich areas but also the trade routes and all points in between. The Philippines is ideally located within South-East Asia which is exactly why the Spanish were there before the US, the Japanese came in WWII and the US remained there even after Vietnam...

Unless I'm forgetting something we lost a lot of good men during the initial invasion, the occupation and the liberation of The Philippines in WWII.

I do agree that the Middle East is about to explode but I don't think it's fair to place the sole blame on the US. There has been a lot of outside influence in those countries since the discovery & dependence on oil which has launched them from nomadic camel herders (no offense intended) into the modern era in way too short of a time.

Well said Bob

[Gary and Alla 3,694]

I love when cats talk.

I watched Real Sex last night. That is messed up!

Watched? I.......... NM

[Gary and Alla 3,694]

Give it about 4 more years and all the Pinays will be here anyway and the military will lose all interest in going there.

[Tim/Mav 305]

My Dad once told me a joke when I was about 12 years old and never understood what he meant by it. Somehow, I never forgot it. He said:

China and Japan are now at War. Both Countries decided to engage eachother to the death. Emperiors of Japan and China Sat together to watch the Battle. It was Bloody and to the Death in Honor.

About an Hour into the Battle the Japanese Emperior looks at the Chinese Emperior and says: Hhahahaahahaa! For Every One of my Fighters Killed, they Kill 10 of your Chinamen.. Then asks: Do you Surrender? The Chinese Emperior says:

NO! Pretty Soon. There will be No Japanese left....