I am stuck on this piece that I have been laboring on for more than one month now. I have reach a draft up to Page 8. But I don't know how to end this.
Your post on what China has done is great.
I am thinking also if we should just keel over and let them do what they want to do with us in the Homeland. General Gabuna, Cynthia, Bankaw, have expressed their thoughts. And kasama na ang kanilang sinabi sa aking pagmumuni-muni.
Cesar Torres
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On this Dangerous China-Philippines Standoff
Ask Our People~
Are they Willing to Die for the Sake of their Country and their Honor?
By Cesar Torres*
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his is a rhetorical question, of course. With terrible implications. But supposing the Philippines will defend Panatag and other areas that are definitely part of Philippine territory in the West Philippine Sea, such as the Municipality of Kalayaan in that Island Group, and the Chinese will react with violence, and fire on the Filipinos who are just legally defending our territory, and then the violence will escalate to the point that China will use its massive force to subjugate us, are the Filipinos willing to die for the sake of our Homeland and our honor?
Terrible thought. But it could end this way — thousands, even millions of Filipinos dying…. And resulting in the disappearance of the Philippines from the map because China wants to prove to the world that it is the “Middle Kingdom” (http://www.sup.org/book.cgi?id=17768) all over again. And that whatever China wants, China gets. It will not countenance anyone barring its way.
For those who are seriously concerned about China's behavior with respect to our miserable country, I think this is now the time to ask our countrymen if they understand the meaning and the implications of the following lines in our National Anthem which they have been singing with intense fervor since they could sing:
Lupang Hinirang,
Duyan ka ng magiting,
Sa manlulupig,
Di ka pasisiil.
And to emphasize that patriotism, love of country, can result in the ultimate sacrifice — one’s life — we sing with passion:
Aming ligaya, na pag may mang-aapi
Ang mamatay ng dahil sa iyo.
Initial Impresssions and Childish Dreams
Earlier, when China started this confrontation with the Philippines and other countries bordering the West Philippine Sea and the South China Sea, I expressed my thoughts to a very close friend, a Filipina, who has Chinese roots like millions of us Filipinos, like my wife, my daughter, my son, my three grandsons who are all Americans. I consoled my friend that China might be flexing its muscles, hoping to right the wrongs heaped upon it. They want to become the "Middle Kingdom" all over again, after being brutalized and carved up by European, American, and Japanese imperialists.
Aside from righting historical wrongs, China has to ensure that food and other basic needs for its 1.37 billion population — and their succeeding generations for thousands of years to come — shall be assured. Survival and self-preservation are the primordial laws of life, except for the Islamic suicide bombers and the Japanese heroes who volunteered to go inside the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant in Fukushima in 2011.
Initially, I was imagining that China, this mammoth, gargantuan country with the biggest population in the world at 1.37 billion, and three million soldiers which can hurl atomic weapons anywhere on earth, was just acting like a giant cat, playing with a scrawny, sickly, starving and mangy mouse, the Philippines.
The cat is a behemoth. But unlike other cats,such as man-eating lions and tigers, the tiny emaciated mouse was used to its presence. They have been interacting with each other for a long time already, almost back to the dawn of history. The race of the Philippine mouse, even thought that the behemoth creature was their guardian, and would protect them from harm. Hence, the mangy mouse was not afraid.
Nevertheless, it did not escape the attention of the Philippine mouse that in March 14, 1988, some 88 Vietnamese mice were killed by the Chinese PLA when there was a violent confrontation in the Spratlys.
True. Like any other nation-states, the Mammoth China had its national interests to take care of. It has to feed its 1.37 billion mouths for one. It has dreams of grandeur among the 193 countries of the world. And never again would it allow itself to be carved into several pieces of territorial properties under several imperialistic spheres of influence.
Millions in the Philippines had the illusion that China would interact with its neighbors in ASEAN, in an exemplary manner, an example of civility and diplomacy. Unlike the giant Killer Whales or the Orcas, it was not going to play with the poor and defenseless dolphins, tossing them to the air, and then ripping them apart.
China was going to pursue and protect its national interests in a civilized and reasonable manner, by adhering to international law, without bullying and brutalizing small countries, and killing Vietnamese soldiers and threatening Filipino soldiers and innocent civilians.
As dreamers, perhaps I and a million others conjured two ideal agreements with China in connection with the territories owned by the Philippines in the West Philippine Sea, such as the Panatag Shoal.
Scenario No. 1 -- The Dream Scenario for the Philippines
For the Philippines and the world, China will apologize to the Philippines, and confess that their bullying of the Philippines was a mistake. And that the Politburo had tried and convicted the persons responsible for that embarrassing mistake. It was not right that they prevented the unloading of tons of bananas from Mindanao resulting in thousands of Filipinos being hungry. They will allow the unloading of tons of bananas from Mindanao. And to resolve differences between the Philippines, Vietnam, and other countries it will agree to international mediation and conform to the Law of the Sea.
China will initiate an agreement with the Philippines and Vietnam, and other stakeholders, that a regional treaty for the sustainable and environmentally sound utilization of the marine and other resources of the South China Sea will be undertaken by the nations of the “Pacific Community”. This would be the “Great Harmony”, “da tong”, in the conception of Confucius.
Scenario No. 2 -- The Confucian Great Harmony Scenario
In this scenario, the 1.37 billion Chinese led by the Chinese Communist Party and the People’s Liberation Army will chide the Philippines, Vietnam, Brunei, Indonesia, and Malaysia for their lack of respect and faith in the superior culture and civilization of the Chinese Communists and Capitalists. The Chinese will swear on their lives and on their honor that they only wanted “Harmony” in Southeast Asia, especially with the members of the ASEAN, without denying the special relations between the ASEAN countries such as Philippine dependence on its former master, America.
Again, an apology to the Vietnamese and the Philippines will be offered. Henceforth, they will be guided by the “Law of the Sea” and Arvid Pardo’s immortal declaration that the oceans should be the common heritage of mankind.
They will not only seek harmony in Southeast Asia, especially in the West Philippine Sea, they will seek harmony all over the world.
They will be a guardian of the peace all over the world, and will vote in the Security Council based on what is civilized, befitting their claim that they are the Middle Kingdom.
In initiating an organization that will ensure that the resources of the West Philippine Sea, the Spratlys and the Paracels, shall be nurtured and safeguarded as the common heritage of the people in the ASEAN and China, China will request that the Security Council shall create a Task Force to be headed jointly by the Philippines and Vietnam. And that China will abide by the recommendations of the Task Force.
Indeed, how pleasant to contemplate if the two scenarios are possible. But we know they are unrealistic. Sort of escapism, wishing for the moon because the other alternatives could be horrible.
[TO BE CONTINUED....]
Cesar Torres
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On Tue, Sep 4, 2012 at 5:59 AM, Louie Fernandez
Yes, I agree with just about everything you wrote, but you left this out: How do we deal with the new imperialist on the block China which has set up a garrison -- a military base -- just 220 miles off of Zambales that is not much farther than the US missile-naval base in South Korea 185 miles from China?
Shall we simply roll over and have the dragon have its greedy and bullying ways and have them take our land? Aren't the Americans the devil we already know while the Chinese, well, maybe we do know. Yup, look at the way they treat the conquered Tibetans, the Uighurs, the minorities out west, our Austronesian brethren in Taiwan they brutally and practically wiped out like the Native Americans by the whites, and their very own Han people they massacre?
Also, just look at the many Chinese here in the Philippines. Still many do not consider themselves Filipinos even if they were born here. They refer to themselves as Filipino-Chinese, not Chinese-Filipino which is very telling. Just look at their chambers of commerce signs and various associations. And of course they still have their Chinese schools not wanting to integrate.
In the states it is the majority racist white conservatives who do not want to integrate the minorities and the immigrants especially in the schools. Here in the Philippines, it is just the opposite. It is they, the many Chinese immigrants, who are racist. Many of them refuse to assimilate by sending their children to Chinese schools. So you see they may even be more racist and brutal as imperialists than the Americans.
At least there is rule of law in the US. In the 48 years that I lived in the states i saw great racial progress, thanks, by the way, to liberals. Do they have liberals in China? I doubt it.
One thing i don't doubt is they are fucking horny. And fucking horny trumps racism and results in miscegenation and assimilation whether they like it or not. I know, my lolo was Chinese.
Louie
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MLT,
Jose Marti of Cuba and Jose Rizal of the Philippines both foresaw the rising empire of the U.S.
Jose Rizal said America was infected with the colonial virus contracted from its European relatives (relathieves). The temptation to colonize is powerful and overwhelming, especially to a country feeling its power muscles. But that is no moral justification to commit aggression against other countries and people. To people who have jettisoned such international concepts like self-determination and consent of the governed, empire-building comes naturally. Like to the U.S.
WWII in the Pacific was the colonizers' war over colonies with the natives as collateral damage. We are not indebted to the U.S. for reconquering us in 1945. In the first place, the U.S. had no right to invade and occupy the Philippines in 1898, much less reconquer the country in 1945. No liberation of the Philippines happened in 1945. Only a change of conquering colonizers took place. Just as the Americans did not liberate us from Spanish rule in 1898. Their original intention, succumbing to the overpowering temptation of the strong, was to colonize the Philippines. After Spanish ass got kicked at Manila Bay, the Spanish government obliged the Yankees' colonial appetite for the price of $20 million. Where have you heard of liberators buying you and your country for $20 million? Is that liberation or mass slavery transacted in the Paris "free market"?
War in the Pacific was provoked by the U.S. and UK blockade of East Asia's resources from Japan. Japan demanded free reign in Asia just as European powers reigned over Africa, Middle East, and weaker European countries. The U.S. enjoyed free reign over the Carribean and Latin America, invoking its own invented Monroe Doctrine to illegally dominate other countries and people. The colonizers provoked the Pacific war and got their colonized subjects to fight their war against Japan. The white monkeys even had the temerity to charge many Filipinos with treason for collaborating with the Japanese. What about charging millions of Filipinos with treason for collaborating with American colonizers? Only the communist Huks who fought both colonizers are the true Filipino patriots. But the Filipino majority, collaborators all, disagree.
The U.S. did not end the age of empires and colonization. The U.S. found itself the most powerful nation in the world after WWII. The temptation to expand its empire was just too irresistible, and was unresisted. As a matter of fact, George Kennan and others articulated the U.S. imperial strategy at the State Department even before the war ended. He advised setting aside idealistic ideas such as democracy, human rights, self-determination of countries, and similar garbage. Instead, he pushed for occupation and holding territories outside the U.S., control resources, and promoting governments subservient to the U.S. In short, empire-building U.S.A. The imperial principles were followed closely in the cases of Korea and Vietnam: divide and rule. China was just too big to control and refused to be intimidated by American power. So the U.S. strategy was: containment. To limit its influence among countries in the region. Recently, the U.S. even urges Asian nations to unite versus China. For what? To fight America's future war with China, like its previous war with Japan? Asian nations should unite with China versus the U.S., UK, Australia, and New Zealand imperialists. We need to remain independent and sovereign in our own territories. Free from interference and subversion by foreign powers (read U.S./UK/Australia/Israel). That is a sine qua non to national planning for human development.
In the Philippines, we should forget about prioritizing foreign trade as in more exports over imports. That is purely meaningless in terms of development. We should prioritize food self-sufficiency, housing, full employment, education, health, and infrastructures (6th priority) to support the first 5 priorities. Full industrialization (7th priority) to support and sustain the 6 priorities. If surplus output results in meeting the 7 priorities, then trade them in foreign markets on terms set by Filipino producers.
Natural resources (including land, water, marine resources, timber, minerals, air waves, etc.) and industrial utilities must be commonly owned by the people's representative, the government. All users of resources will pay the current market value of the resource as rental tax to government (national and/or local). Output, capital improvements, revenues, and income should be tax-free. Money creation, banking, and credit extension must be returned to the public sector as public utilities and controlled by government. Credit extension will be devoted to capital formation (factories, housing, infra, parks, schools, museums) and cost of credit limited to actual administration expenses (no more fancy interest fees for legal, management, consultancy, administrative, and insurance baloney). Monetary and fiscal policies must be united under one economic agency for efficiency and maximum impact.
With the country's huge unutilized productive capacity (unemployment, underemployment, capital underutilization, resource hoarding via consessions/licenses/agreements) government can initiate mass productivity by money creation and deficit spending on infrastructures and basic industrial projects. Deficit spending can begin immediately on education, health, and housing to stimulate industry related to those sectors. Infra should include research and development projects with government institutes and educational institutions (all private schools must be nationalized and government-run with religion as an optional subject). True history validated by genuine scientific research will be taught by Filipinos to their own people. Education will focus on science, engineering, math, technology, and history. Religion will be limited to the study of its history. Same with economics.
When we pursue the above development strategy, minding our own business, the U.S. government will subvert our efforts because we are pursuing an independent development strategy. The honkies want us only as raw material suppliers or as international sweat shops producing subcomponents of their high value finished goods. We cannot agree with their exploitative strategy and need to fight like Cuba, Bolivia, Venezuela, Nicaragua, or China for our rights. So, did I leave out anything?
Allan T.
Sent: Monday, 3 September 2012 10:19 PM
Subject: [CebuPolitics] WHO HELPED END THE AGE OF EMPIRES AND COLONIZATION??? Re: Fw: U.S. MISSILE-NAVAL BASE 300 KM FROM CHINA american brinkmanship-2A
Every nation is an empire-builder if it has the power to do so. If Filipinos had been the conquerors, we might have committed likewise some of the atrocities in war committed by foreign invaders--just like the reported torture done by martial law enforcers to Filipinos themselves, those who fought against the martial law administration. Even our Sultanate in Sulu extended its conquest, for example, to Sabah--the reason why the government staked its claim on it during the time of Pres. Diosdado Macapagal.
Without the US in WW II, who could have defeated Japan and Germany at that time and liberated nations conquered and oppressed by them? The Arabs ruled Spain for centuries, Spain ruled us for centuries, maybe Japan and Germany would have ruled Europe and Asia (if not the entire world) also for centuries had not the US and its allies defeated the two conquering brutal nations.
The US, a prime mover among the victorious allies in transforming the League of Nations into the United Nations--which works against further territorial conquests by warlike nations--played a key role in ending the age of empires and colonization. Thus, when Algeria fought for independence, De Gaulle of France had to accept the realities of the times. Instead of suppressing Algerian revolution, he simply granted them independence. When Iraq invaded Kuwait, the UN through the US repelled and sent back home the surviving invaders.
It is a crime to compare what the Japanese did to us with what the Americans also did to us when each of them conquered us. Immediately after WW II, if a Japanese ventured into our barrio, he could not go home alive.
In peace time, some Americans will promote the interests of their nations in ways extremely prejudicial to the interests of other nations. (If we have been in constant threat of unpredictable sudden foreign invasion like the South Koreans have been, we may understand why the South Korean government allows the building of US base in South Korea.) It is then up to the other nations--or to us--to protect ourselves. If we hate Americans for that, we should hate more our co-Filipinos--our corrupt government officials and oligarchs in society--who commit corruption, economic exploitation, and other crimes against their own people.
When a nation like the Philippines strives to achieve industrialization and favorable balance of trade (more exports than imports), in effect it is trying to undermine the economies of its trading partner-nations. We as a nation can achieve economic growth through favorable balance of trade only at the expense of other nations who have unfavorable balance of trade with us. And that is what we are trying to do--we care for our nation at the expense of other nations, without regard to their welfare at all. In that sense, are we any different from Americans and other foreigners?
We are less evil than them maybe simply because we are less powerful than them in taking advantage of others.
MLT
Sent: Monday, September 3, 2012 4:46 PM
Subject: Re: [CebuPolitics] Re: Fw: U.S. MISSILE-NAVAL BASE 300 KM FROM CHINA american brinkmanship-2A
MLT,
No sense imagining that world. The U.S. was empire-oriented since day one of Columbus' arrival and mass murder of Indians. Then followed by kidnapping and enslavement of black people to work the plantations (early version of equal opportunity employer?).
Are you implying by your question that the world is a better place with the U.S. as an imperial power? Or that Filipinos would have been worse off had another power (not the U.S.) invaded and colonized Filipinos? I hope you are not infected by the same U.S. imperial virus that causes color blindness when looking at U.S. international crimes.
America atom-bombed Japanese, carpet-bombed Koreans and Chinese, and poison-sprayed Vietnamese. Not to mention mass murder of Filipino civilians in 1898 and 1945. Are these the acts of a superior civilization? Colonialism in perpetuity is impossible, history tells us. More than 300 years of Spanish rule ended. So will the present U.S. stranglehold of the Philippines come to an end sooner than we all think.
An American scholar without rose-colored glasses has observed that Japanese colonialism in Manchuria and Korea actually contributed to the development of those places. The Japanese were brutal bastards in imposing order and discipline, but they also made net investments into their colonial possessions and trained local people in science and administration. Unlike the Western colonial powers (Spanish, American, English, French, Dutch, German, etc.) who engaged in pillage and extraction of Asian resources, with people development as collateral benefit. For a more comprehensive and documented description of imperial adventures, I recommend the following books by Professor Noam Chomsky of MIT: Understanding Power, Hegemony or Survival, At War with Asia (out of print but available in libraries). These are recommended readings only for people who want to understand how the world really works. For those based in the U.S. and suffering color blindness, another book by Edward Herman and Noam Chomsky is highly recommended: Manufacturing Consent-The Political Economy of Mass Media. These books detail what the real United States of America is all about and what this imperial power has done to most countries in the world. The book, Manufacturing Consent, describes the American elite's grand illusions about itself (illusions shared by most Americans, including Fil-Ams) and how the complicit media suppresses information that demolishes the desired illusions. On the other hand, the media extensively and intensively exposes the faults and crimes of perceived U.S. enemies, and in the process perpetuates its beloved illusions.
Those American illusions are embroiling the Philippines into another potential war in the Pacific. The U.S. has no business setting up military bases in Asia, illusions notwithstanding. Asia is for Asians. Not for Old Europe Americans. We don't give a shit which colonialism is better. We don't want any. We just want to be left alone in peace. We will not have peace with the mass murdering Americans poking their filthy noses into Asian business.
So with the American imperial sun setting in the west, we say: "Siyanawa!"
Allan T.
Subject: [CebuPolitics] Re: Fw: U.S. MISSILE-NAVAL BASE 300 KM FROM CHINA american brinkmanship-2A
How about imagining a world without the US, from WW II to the Korean War to the present?
Which nation would have invaded us and colonized us and oppressed us--politically, economically, physically--in perpetuity?
MLT
Sent: Monday, September 3, 2012 10:49 AM
Subject: [CebuPolitics] Fw: U.S. MISSILE-NAVAL BASE 300 KM FROM CHINA american brinkmanship-2A
Another dangerous move by the U.S. empire in Asia Pacific.
Long before former JCS Chairman Mike Mullen announced in Singapore last July 2011 that the U.S. will maintain "an enduring presence (read forever)" in Asia Pacific, the U.S. had already decided in 1999 to forestall any challenge (read China) to its domination in Asia Pacific.
After U.S. plans became clear, China began hustling for strategic positions among uninhabited islands in the Pacific. U.S.-UK propaganda misrepresented China's moves as another power grabbing extra territory. Filipino-Americans were conned to lead protests in the U.S. and the Philippines against China's gunboat maneuvers. No one had thought of protesting against the initiating provocateur (U.S.) of conflict among Asian nations.
With the on-going U.S. naval base construction in Je-ju island South Korea and another U.S. marine base in Darwin Australia, China's containment is the dangerous and anachronistic objective of a superpower in decline. Its final gasp and death throes threaten to bring down Asian nations with it. That is something Asian activists should protest.
Allan T.
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US MISSILE-NAVAL BASE 300 KM FROM CHINA
American brinkmanship towards war
Massive protests worldwide growing
Green giant IUCN supports the project
The Cuban Crisis in Reverse
The US is building a missile-laden naval base in the sleepy village of Gangjeong in Jeju Island , South Korea , 300 kilometers from the Chinese mainland. observers have branded this the ‘Gangjeong Crisis’, the Cuban Crisis in reverse. It may trigger a dangerous massive covert escalation as a Chinese response, without us knowing it. This US brinkmanship may easily usher in World War III in the blink of an eye.
The US has partnered with South Korea to dare build a missile naval base a stone’s throw from China, an obsolete Pentagon plan of encirclement, considered to be expensive and strategically useless due to high-tech weapons evolving. It is like the futility of the Great Wall of China in fending off invasions.
China has been doing its homework. Ever since the US was saber-rattling in Taiwan with naval fleets and killer subs, it has littered the China Sea with thousands of ocean detectors to make it nuclear-submarine-free. A decade ago, nuclear submarines of the Seventh Fleet would intimidate China at will, hugging its shores, a psych-war ploy, but not anymore. China has also come up with a mac-10 missile which can hit an aircraft carrier before its early warning systems and counter-missiles can react. China ’s air force is now 70% underground, in case of a nuclear confrontation. China has come up with a larger version of the US stealth aircraft with longer range and bigger payload. It is working on its version of the deadly US drone. Watch out America . You are not dealing with an underling. Do not be over-confident.
In the Cuban Crisis, in its panic, the US effectively used global media to get worldwide support for its plan to force Krushchev to capitulate. China is doing the opposite, a dangerous secret response. It is taking its own brand of panic with a cool stance. It is not in a position for direct confrontation at this time. Who knows what China is cooking up in response to the imminent threat of Gangjeong. Covert escalation can lead to a sudden explosion. It is not who is quicker at the draw. It is the bystanders.
The US is fast-tracking the billion-dollar naval mega-base to pre-empt the rapidly-growing global protest. Photos show that the future naval complex would make Subic look like a Walden Pond moor. Being an island, it is safe from public intrusions. When completed in 2014, it can accommodate 20 warships and killer subs. Defcon 1 for Asia in 2014.
The US-South Korea tandem has a second motive. It wants to secure the disputed oil-rich Socotra Rock, the submerged reef of Jeju. South Korea will also benefit from downstream industries servicing the base in the millions of dollars a year.
Global Green Giant IUCN turns pale
They say the most resilient advocacy, even of a global green giant, can buckle down under the sheer weight of money and politics. Nothing is truer than for the prestigious International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN), another victim of geopolitics and American hegemony. IUCN has not only endorsed the Gangjeong naval base, it has suppressed Korean and International protestors. Local protests are more geopolitical but international protests adds the environmental, the mandate of IUCN.
IUCN now follows the path of other global green giants, such as oil-multinational-funded World Wildlife Fund (WWF) and Conservation International (CI), whose mandates and missions have been compromised. They say “never bite the hand that feeds you”, or simply, “never ever oppose your funders”.
What is IUCN? It is devoted to "pragmatic solutions to pressing environment and development challenges. (It) is the world’s oldest and largest global environmental network—with more than 1,000 government and NGO member organizations, and almost 11,000 volunteer scientists in more than 160 countries. (IUCN's vision is) ‘a just world that values and conserves nature’… to ensure that any use of natural resources is equitable and ecologically sustainable". (Wikipedia).
Such rhetoric of social justice and conservation is now being questioned by a growing sea of global and Korean protests, demanding IUCN’s vast membership to pressure its leaders to reverse its stand. The protest mob includes organizations from the Philippine, Chile , Canada , US, UK , Ethiopia , New Zealand , Spain , Borneo , Uganda , France , Japan , Italy , the Netherlands , Australia , Russia , plus Robert Redford. In the US alone, there are 54 protesting organizations. This is embarrassing for IUCN to have friends and allies who are now turning their backs. Read more from the link - https://mail.google.com/mail/?shva=1#inbox/139744373e8df408
IUCN’s plan to hold a global WCC convention in September a bus ride away from the naval base site is suicide. It is showcasing the environmental crimes it is accused of. It is inviting international protests similar to those in Seattle and Hongkong versus the WTO. IUCN Director-General Julia Marton-Lefevre issued public statements supporting the naval base. Local protests have been swelling. “Fight to the death against the American imperialists’ anti-China naval base!” screamed one streamer.
Environmentalists ask why IUCN had the gall to endorse a project with a flawed EIA, which ignored the impacts on “3 of the most critically endangered species at Gangjeong, the Red-footed Crab, the Jeju Freshwater Shrimp, and the Boreal Digging Frog, which is in the IUCN ‘Red List’ of endangered species.
Gangjeong villagers fear being victims of emerging regional wars. Koh Jong-pyo, an abalone fisherman, says it is more economic, “They worry too much. Think what it could do for the local economy whenever an American aircraft carrier arrives with thousands of sailors and their cash.” This is at an expensive price, as in the the American bases in Okinawa and Subic – prostitution, venereal disease epidemics, rapes by GIs protected by the US Navy, the social collateral damage of American global presence.
Bernie Lopez
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