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Old 12-28-2016, 08:48 AM
 
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Wait, wait, if you are one who agrees with Obama's stance regarding the legality of Netanyahu's west bank settlements being logic enough to back away from a long time ally; why would you take umbrage at him doing the same thing from a country whose leader is a self admitted torturer and murderer?

It's just now coming out this azzclown is bragging about personally doing the same thing as this stuff:

10 Disturbing Facts About Latin America's Cruelest Dictator - Listverse

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Condor

Duterte: I tossed out kidnapper from helicopter | Headlines, News, The Philippine Star | philstar.com

"Irony of circumstance" is something to behold when in full display.
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Old 12-28-2016, 09:01 AM
 
Location: On a Long Island in NY
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What should Obama have done? Sent in an MEU and overthrown Duterte? What then? Take over the Philippines again?

We have 2.5 choices here:

1 - Do nothing and the PI becomes a Chinese puppet with Beijing calling the shots.
2 - We take over the PI again and we install an American puppet government to ensure our interests are protected (and be accused of imperialism, and pay gazillions of $$$ a year to buy favor).
2.5 - We take over the PI again and we annex the islands and right wingers whine about having to pay for the Filipinos.

So what choice do we go with folks?

IMO what we should have done was kept outright control over Subic Bay and Clark Field under the terms of allowing the PI to become independent in 1946. Something similar to the British Sovereign Base Areas in Cyprus.
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