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From: baba@flairvax.UUCP (Baba ROM DOS)
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: Deja vu in the Philippines
Message-ID: <798@flairvax.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 26-Oct-84 08:25:28 EST
Article-I.D.: flairvax.798
Posted: Fri Oct 26 08:25:28 1984
Date-Received: Mon, 29-Oct-84 02:54:47 EST
Organization: Fairchild AI Lab, Palo Alto, CA
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(sigh)

By all reports, the Philippines are going to explode.  Once again, an 
American client regime has so alienated the population that a revolution 
seems inevitable.  Since Marcos calls his opponents communists (and some
of them are), and because the US needs its military bases in the Philippines, 
the US government and particularly the Reagan administration have provided 
unswerving and largely unquestioning support for his regime.  Now it may be 
too late to break the association of the US with Marcos in the minds of 
Filipinos.  You would think that after Iran and Nicaragua we would have 
learned something.  When a superpower installs and/or backs a strongman
in a client state, the client leadership is artificially secure and can
easily become insensitive to popular sentiment and the public good.  It 
is both practically and morally necessary to make our full support 
contingent on responsible leadership.   

					Baba