Posted on 07/12/2004 2:30:46 PM PDT by dead
And watch our own economy collapse in the process? No thanks. Your idea works in theory, and I'd be for isolationism too, but the way everyone is so entangled with each other today, it would be a) not desirable and b) not feasible.
...and you guys wondered they called it a manilla folder.
Were the Phillipines once part of the French Empirette?
Thanks to the Phillipines, officially there now is a price on everyone's head. They have enboldened the terrorists to continue their practice of kidnapping and beheadiing anyone they see fit to. We will be seeing a lot more of this.
It's the support and humanitarian workers they are scaring off. The troops are appreciated but the cooks and drivers are needed.
REQUEST!!??
Spain II. Pitiful people, all.
Disappointing, but not surprising. Human nature doesn't change much from elementary school through to the end. Throughout life, bullies succeed at being bullies because most people in fact do turn over their lunch money to them so they won't get punched in the face. It'll always be that way.
May the ghosts of Bataan, Corregidor and my purple hearted deceased father on Leyete let them die a cowards death daily. Patay! walana pakikisama.
I'd agree with the first five letters of that word.
This will be easily resolved. The technology does not yet exist for creating a rope that will not break when he dropped.
God Bless your Father. My Father also has a purple heart and other medals from the Battle of The Bulge.
God Bless all of our Fathers for the valor and courage they showed the world in doing the right thing when they were called upon.
God bless your Dad too. He came back from the PI, married my mother but was never the same again. What these men had was a sense of DUTY. They believed in the American dream and wanted to share this gift with this dead world.
I lived in the PI for 8 years in Subic, Manila and traveled the country extensively. Military, Graduate School and employed there. These are wonderful people but they like us have useful idiots. They run amuk.
Pity this generation of Filipinos has no sense of history or purpose.
This goes back to the OKlahoma City bombing where Terry Nichols, McVeigh's sidekick, hung out in the Phillipines. If our government ever told us the truth about anything, we'd realize that we have been attacked at least since the '80s by the Islamists on a number of occasions that were covered up. And finally bin Laden's boys bought Clancy's book and thought the keen idea of using airliners to fly into the Towers couldn't be explained away by our govenment and their media lackeys. And they were spectacularly right.
Atos
"Pity this generation of Filipinos has no sense of history or purpose."
As do many of my baby boomer generation, who are now the socialists and communists - The Enemy Within - trying to destroy America from within. NEA, ACLU etc.
It's also a pity that many in EVERY generation are like that, and that our short, rich American History is being lost in the liberal-demokkkRAT-run education system.
The Enemy Within is destroying us slowly, but surely. Socialists, communists, greens etc are not at the gates anymore; they're inside the fortress.
Savage's "The Enemy Within", nails it pretty well.
"Nice going, guys. Real macho of you."
So much for the myth of hispanic machismo. Spain folds, Honduras folds, the Phillipines are folding, and Mexico was too wussy to even come out from under the covers, where it is still cowering, and still denying that there is any terrorist threats from mohammedans anywhere; which is why it surrendered before it was even asked for assistance in the first place.
Savage is unique and a powerful voice in this feminized society of ours. My 14 year old son listens to him all the time. His negativity needs a balance. I read him excerpts from Coach John Wooden's (UCLA) books nightly. Check him out here: http://www.coachjohnwooden.com/
Our filipino friends should too.
NPA: Gloria will pay if hostage dies By Karl B. Kaufman , Reporter
THE communist movement will lead moves to overthrow the Arroyo administration if Angelo de la Cruz is beheaded by his abductors in Iraq.
In a statement Gregorio Ka Roger Rosal, spokesman for the Communist Party of the Philippines, accused President Arroyo of sacrificing the lives of overseas Filipino workers by supporting the US-backed invasion of Iraq.
“The Arroyo regime is responsible for putting the lives of Filipino workers in Iraq and the Middle East in danger, and now the dire fate and danger to the life of de la Cruz,” Rosal said.
“It is the full responsibility of the puppet Arroyo government whatever happens to Angelo de la Cruz. The moment his head is severed, we will do everything to ensure that the Arroyo government will be overthrown. The revolutionary movement promises to do everything to hasten the downfall of [Mrs.] Arroyo if de la Cruz is beheaded,” Rosal added.
http://www.manilatimes.net/national/2004/jul/11/yehey/top_stories/20040711top4.html
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DUBAI (Reuters) - The Philippines will withdraw its forces from Iraq "as soon as possible," Philippine deputy foreign minister Rafael Seguis said on Monday in a statement he read out on al Jazeera television.
"In response to your request, the Philippines ... will withdraw its humanitarian forces as soon as possible," Seguis said according to al Jazeera's Arabic translation of his remarks.
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