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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!!
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To: Dayuhan who wrote (58825)10/12/1999 9:15:00 PM
From: Constant Reader  Read Replies (3) of 108807
 
I see. On the one hand, Ronald Reagan had the personal power and influence to single-handedly keep Marcos in power, but on the other hand he had absolutely no power or influence over his departure.

This is oddly reminiscent of almost all arguments about Ronald Reagan. His detractors simultaneously paint him as an evil cunning manipulating felon bent on the destruction of the human race, and as a distant disoriented amiable buffoon incapable of uttering a coherent unscripted sentence much less walk and chew gum at the same time.

It seems to me that you overestimate Reagan's personal interest in both the Philippines in general and Marcos in particular and thus overstate his ability to personally influence the direction of both the country and the ruler.

Once again, you appear to be arguing that the United States maintained a singularly harmful activist interventionist foreign policy at the same time it was guilty of not unilaterally acting to correct all of the wrongs committed in an independent nation governed by its own constitution and rule of law.

You appear to discount the record compiled by those who engaged in the conversations and made the decisions by recounting hearsay and talk among your circle of acquaintances.

One could argue that Marcos lost control because the power elite (people who benefited by his rule) within the Philippines had reached the point that they were less afraid of potential anarchy and collapse of the state than the continuation of an obviously corrupt and increasingly ineffective regime.
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