http://www.cnn.com/2016/09/16/asia/l...hilippines-us/(CNN)The Philippines top diplomat has told a forum in Washington that his country "cannot forever be the little brown brothers of America."
Philippines Foreign Secretary Perfecto Yasay made the comments after a speech at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington Thursday, during which he described the US relationship with the Philippines as cooperative and symbiotic.
A scrimmage in a Border Station
A canter down some dark defile
Two thousand pounds of education
Drops to a ten-rupee jezail
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Behind the rhetoric
A critical commentary on the 'Panic about IS in the Philippines', with the Abu Sayyaf group being the focus:https://theconversation.com/panic-about-is-in-the-philippines-masks-a-very-real-war-in-the-country-65196?
"More of the same" the author concludes:For now, the spectre of IS in South-East Asia is a case of an awful lot of smoke and very little fire. And as Duterte joins in the hyperbole, many of the Philippines’ same old mistakes are already being repeated.
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