Posted on 01/25/2015 4:26:01 PM PST by bunkerhill7
It’s either commies or Muslims, all swine
Condolences. May he rest in peace. The Philippines would have been better off as an American dependency. But it was not to be.
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You think that America would have fought the muzzies more effectively in the Philippines if that ialand nation would have been part of America?
As effectively as it did in Iraq and Afghanistan perhaps?
Didn’t Black Jack Pershing deal with the Muslims in the Philippines?
That’s terrible! Prayers for him and his family. This was such a horrible attack.
Maybe I'm missing something here. Are you suggesting that Filipinos are communist swine?
I thought the pilipinos had already fed the alligators not long ago by ceding some territory to their control.
From the article:
“The commandos..., but had a “misencounter” with members of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front and other insurgents, Mayor Tahirudin Benzar Ampatuan of Mamasapano town told The Associated Press by telephone.”
Very interesting. Thanks for posting. Condolences.
RIP.
Dear Lord, please comfort these families of police officers.
That’s terrible, I’m sorry.
Indeed, the corruption in the Philippines notwithstanding, they do not mess around with this sort of criminals.
There might not have been an insurgency. American rule brought a ton of development to the PI. After independence, the native government's nationalizations of various economic sectors probably brought an end to that. Like a lot of other less-developed democratic countries, the Philippines is run like a feudal state, with a revolving caste of aristocrats who are granted local oligopolies in business sectors (via legal and regulatory impediments to new entrants), to the detriment of overall economic development. Unlike Afghanistan and Iraq, the Philippines was ruled by Americans. It was fairly well-off at independence, relative to its neighbors. Now it's among the poorest in Southeast Asia (i.e. the East Asian countries below China), ahead only of Burma (the hermit state) and the communist-in-name-only countries of Laos, Cambodia and Vietnam.
Why are the MSM still using the term, "insurgents"? It makes them sound like freedom fighters or something. They're not. They are terrorists.
We had well-off Philippine neighbors who boasted that, after their retirement, they would have a house built for them in the PH where they would live like kings complete with servants.
I have never liked people who take advantage of the less fortunate and then boast about it.
If you want to be a prick, shut up about it.
Calling John F’in Kareless.
There are Muslim and Communist guerrilla’s fighting the Filipino government.
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