US TROOPS REMAIN IN THE PHILIPPINES

The news flash this week that 600 US troops are to remain in the Philippines barely created a media splash compared to the anti-American, anti-military atmosphere in the Philippines just a year ago at the height of the Cpl. Subic Smith fiasco.

We should be well aware at this point that leftist Philippine anti-american groups such as Gabriella, MILF and etc. .. are all branches of the same Marxist propaganda machine. In true marxist fashion, the world is always neatly divided into only 2 classes, the oppressed and the oppressors. What marxist feminists only say is that women are victims, men are oppressors, therefore any man is a rapist or abuser. The facts in an individual case are not relevant because it only matters what 'class' the parties belong to. White, Male, Military, Foreigner equals guilty in the Marxist feminist world, facts are annoying distractions, as in the Cpl. Subic dramatics of the past few years.

The anti-american, anti-military types in the Philippines sell this Marxist oppression theology because it is a lot easier and cheaper (almost costless) to get followers by hate mongering than it is to actually do anything to help people, such as improving their lives by building more houses, schools, roads, hospitals, etc. The Cpl. Subic drama was fabricated by the anti-american coalition because he made an excellent scapegoat for the anti-american theology. Compare this contrived drama about 2 clumsy drunk kids screwing in a van, to the real-life horror story of the american tourists kidnapped from dos palmas just a few years ago, gang raped for months, beheaded by rebels. Compare this to the routine gang rape of young filipinas in remote villages by rebel groups as a way to terrorize supporters of the government or military. These tragic stories are ignored and suppressed by feminists, and the biased media because they are not useful in spreading the Marxist theology of western (male, military) oppression and imperialism. It is so tragic that the leftist media glorifies and proliferate these loosly affiliated pirate rape gangs as if they were some sort of a legitimate political party.

The media and political hype in spinning the issue of US and Philippine military cooperation is one of the most retarded propaganda delusions sold to any group of people. To suggest that the presence of some 600 US troops could some how threaten or even influence Philippines sovereignty is as preposterous as suggesting the several thousand Philipino's serving in the US armed forces threatens US sovereignty, or to suggest the millions of Filipino OFW's threaten the security of thier host countries. US- Philippine relations are based as much on mutual national defense and cooperation as it is on economic cooperation. While leftists prefer us to think that a foreign attack on the Philippines is unlikely, or impossible.. that is exactly what brilliant military minds thought prior to the invasion and occupation of the Philippines in WW2 by the Japanese. Today, like WW2, the need for natural resources such as Oil limits the economic advancement and very survival of nations. Japan needed to conquer the Philippines to gain access to Oil, in order to survive as an industrial nation. Today China faces exactly the same economic demands, and while we hope and pray that China would not resort to use of it's military to advance it's economic expansion, we must do more than hope and pray to ensure it. China has about 2,250,000 active duty military compared to about 113,000 active duty in the Philippines, about 20:1 ratio. Any fool can see that the Philippines is dependant upon security alliances due to it's strategic location as gateway to vast and vital resources in Australia, Brunai, etc. Likewise the USA, as a global military power, seeks stability and security in the region.

Do the 600 troops really help any? Would the 600 be able to thwart a major offensive, against Philippines, Thermopylae style? In reality, beyond the mutual training enhancements from the exercises, these troops are mostly a token presence that only symbolizes the long standing military cooperation between the USA and Philippines. Please don't forget that more US troops died in single battles defending or liberating the Philippines in WW2 than did all the casualties in Vietnam, Iraq, and Afghanistan combined.

Advances in military technology over the past century reduces the need for land bases, just as satellite imagery and long range airplanes and missiles have rendered watchtowers and fortifications obsolete. Fear mongers suggest that the US military has ambitions to open large bases in the Philippines and station large numbers of troops, as it was many decades ago. From an economic perspective, this is a fairly stupid suggestion, and in fact some intelligent thought on the matter should lead us to conclude that the reverse solution is best. Wages in the USA are about 10 times that of typical filipino wages, and this includes military pay. Why would any rational or intelligent person pay a US troop ten times the cost of Filipino troops? It makes no economic sense to station USA troops in the Philippines, they are too expensive. Instead, the USA military should afford filipino troops wider access to support the US military as a mutually beneficial and cost effective solution. Filipino troops replacing US troops could get five times their normal pay at half the cost of USA troops.

For very different reasons, I too must agree it is a bad idea to have standing USA troops in the Philippines... it would be much more cost effective to have Philippine troops integrated with US military units. This concept should not come as a surprise, as large numbers of Filipino's currently serve in the US military, including hundreds of filipino's serving on the US aircraft carrier that visited Manila last week. Many thousands of Filipinos also serve as non-combatant civilian contractors on US military bases doing jobs that could otherwise require military personnel. While the presence of USA troops in Philippines simply does not make a lot of sense, sharing technology and pre-positioning military assets does make sound defense strategy, and thus the argument for some type of bases or locations within Philippine military bases to store or reserve military assets would make a lot of sense.

The leftist media frames Philippine national security from a Nicole - Subic perspective that should invoke the smirks and laughter of any serious discussion of the topic. The marxist feminist propaganda regarding westerners, men, and the military as imperialist rapists and oppressors of the innocent demure native girls.... needs to be responded in kind by a reality check to the USA military policy of prohibiting engagement with bargirls. The US military code should be reversed to encourage the engagement of bargirls in establishments deemed safe and sanitary for thier employees and customers. This would reduce a lot of the risk, extortion and confusion over casual dating by members of the military. Marxist Feminist propaganda funded by US feminist programs such as VAWA has created a circular firing squad targeting men and the military based upon the absolute fiction that all bargirls are somehow the abused, exploited, trafficked, victims of men (especially, western, military men). In reality, far less than 1% of these girls are exploited or trafficked, with almost all doing it because the lifestyle is fun and pays good. Rather than spread the marxist feminist hogwash that all these often charming, poised and playful girls are exploited and trafficked, a focus should be made to locate and help out those very few who are indeed in a bad situation against thier will and may need some help.
Just like silver is .925 pure, the marxist feminist propaganda is 99% pure lies and fiction.. we need to remember that next time some tv or political hack starts up their hysterical demagoguery of men, the usa, the military, claiming they were just raped by Cpl. Subic. Compensated dating establishments existed across Asia long before Marco Polo wrote about it, and will exist long after the decades since Subic closed. Some people may not like it, but it is simply a reality of life, just like dating or sex before marriage, and to blame this on western tourists, or the US military, is a pure fiction perpetrated against a naive people, and does nothing at all to address the problem other than build destructive Marxist alliances based upon xenophobia, fear mongering, and hate-mongering. Marxists and feminists who spew lewd and vulgar innuendo against US or Philippine military personnel scrupulously engaged in thier honorable duties should rightfully be regarded no different from street women plying thier avocations.