The Filipino people will muster the will and determination to flush out foreign troops from our territory, as they mustered the will and power to dismantle U.S. military bases in 1991. (Posted by Bulatlat)
This issue analysis was written by Roland G. Simbulan, Centennial Professor, University of the Philippines, and Senior Fellow, Center for People Empowerment in Governance (CenPEG).
Sources:
Docena, Herbert (2006). Unconventional Warfare. Focus on the Global South. Also see Docena, Herbert, At the Door of the East (The Philippines in United States Military Strategy).
Galvin, T. General (1987). Testimony before th US Senate Committee on Armed Services. Feb. 23, 1987.
United States Army, (1975). Guide for the Planning of Counterinsurgency. Department of the Army, Washington, DC.
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The Filipino people did not "muster the will and power to dismantle U.S. military bases in 1991," a barest majority of self-serving senators did. I won't debate the merits of the VFA with you, but know this: Yes, U.S servicemen DID commit crimes, but very few Americans and their families left Clark or Subic after a 3-year tour of duty without having been the VICTIM of a crime, be it assault, burglary, robbery, extortion, every scam imaginable, and yes, even rape and murder. And while GIs committed their crimes out of youthful stupidity and/or intoxication, Filipinos committed theirs while sober and with malice aforethought…and at a ratio of at least 100 to 1…..anything else is revisionist history by leftist twits just like YOU. Oh, and by the way, whatever happened to "Vanessa?" Somebody check her cell phone records and find out that she was an Anti-VFA plant? Do you expect people to believe that Gabriela sat on her accusation for almost a month?? I don't. And "Nicole" didn't fool the Appellate Court, either.