Philippine president blames US for Middle East violence

[Janelle2002 3,865]

MANILA, Philippines (AP) The new Philippine president blamed U.S. intervention for the bloody conflicts in Iraq and other Middle Eastern countries in his latest criticism of Manila's closest security ally.

President Rodrigo Duterte suggested in a speech Friday that intrusive policy was to blame for attacks on U.S. soil, saying, "It is not that the Middle East is exporting terrorism to America, America imported terrorism."

"They forced their way to Iraq ... look at Iraq now, look what happened to Libya, look what happened to Syria," he told the Muslim community in southern Davao city in a ceremony marking the end of the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan. "People are being annihilated there including children."

The former Davao mayor has said he would be a leftist president who would chart a foreign policy not dependent on the United States.

He has pointed out the benefits of nurturing friendly relations with Beijing, including a Chinese offer of financing railway projects in the Philippines. The country has had frosty ties with China under Duterte's predecessor, Benigno Aquino III, who bolstered security ties with the U.S. to deter China's assertiveness in the disputed South China Sea.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/philippine-president-blames-us-uk-middle-east-violence-122926665.html

[Jacque67 7,328]

But he's loved by those in the know on VJ!!!!

[Janelle2002 3,865]

But he's loved by those in the know on VJ!!!!

Gotta love his anti American stance. And he's making nice and unifying with the Muslims in his country. He had a meeting with some during Ramadan to talk about the chaos the u.s. is causing in the middle east.

He's a model president