calm seas, what is your beef?
Calm Seas:
What is your beef really?
Truth to tell, I cannot fathom from where you are coming from politically? In this thread, you sound as if you were a Filipino campus radical of the early 1970s crying out bloody revolution.
Yet, in the other, you sounded as if you were someone to the right of the political spectrum, even if only to the right of center.
A revolution to knock off the oligarchy? For starters, no attempt at armed struggle to topple the government has ever succeeded.
So, history would be immediately against those who advocate such in my country.
And Yes, there is an oligarchy. And yes, there is corruption here. Which is sad.
But Filipinos have the tendency to highlight their shortcomings while failing to count their strengths.
Have you ever wondered why the Philippines has never sank into the ocean, in spite its bad press since the 1950s? Its because of the Filipino people's resiliency.
And inspite the political heat right now in the Philippines, its economy is still doing fine, Thank You.
My take as to why this is so: reforms of the political and economic variety since Corazon Aquino's time are now having a cumulative effect.
It would be best for US security interests to nudge these incremental steps towards progress further.
And that goes also for the Armed Forces of the Philippines--an institution where the United States has plenty of clout.
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