the bad guys abandoned the ship already then settled in the most convenient foreign land of their choice. some of them spend their time pelting vitriol at the ship they abandoned as well as at the good guys who stood it out with their beloved beleaguered ship.

The is in Afghanistan because the Taliban protected the instigators of terrorist attacks against the US. The US ousted the Taliban and gave Afghans a chance for democracy and Western style freedoms and wealth. That Afghan culture is steeped in corruption, warlordism, and extremist oppression – and is not suited for Western style freedoms and wealth — does not make the US attempt for reason and stability ill-motivated. The US would not be there except for its own defense. By what standard is this “imperialism”? What is the saying? The only ground the US requests from others is space enough to bury its soldiers.

Joe

Sorry Joe, I do try to separate America from American Imperialism.

But many know that Afghanistan is a puppet state just as South Vietnam was. That they helped Hamid Karzai in the elections, whether through fraud or through popularity. Karzai’s brother is both a drug dealer and employed by the CIA. People are deceived to blame the puppets or even the people themselves by having a “fair” election.

The U.S. Government is much too involved in the politics of other countries violating sovereign rights. There is an organized group in America (I suspect includes Federal Reserve) who push their interests through the government. One who was exempt was Pres. John Kennedy who respected the sovereign rights of South Vietnam.

http://www.rawa.org/temp/runews/2009/11/04/robert-fisk-america-is-performing-its-familiar-role-of-propping-up-a-dictator.html

http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=15967

BTW do any of you people know what’s the literacy rate in the Philippines? Just curious.

The Clan called Lopez and the posse of Clans called Zobel Ayala are already in control.

Ampatuan is just a side show.

What’s being asked is the candidates platform NOT the LP platform – unless the LP is intellectually bankrupt as the candidates – and all they have to do is take the platform – hook, line, and sinker – even if it reeks with motherhood statements totally devoid of substance.

Man is perfectible, but it does not appear to be so in this life.

Now even a place in Waziristan is the center of battles. This is a place where once the British army also used poison gas against the natives.

Today the U.S. has had to become a smart colonial power. The main tool of dollar imperialism wearing thin. The emerging competitors to the U.S. now know that the achilles heel of the U.S. is the economy.

The lunatic fringe is becoming more and more dominant in the U.S. The U.S. and the multi-laterals continue to fund corrupt government to do their bidding.

The Philippine government is the moral hazard of the men who preach such high ideals about human rights but in the pragmatic real world they simply pay lip service to it.