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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group
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To: LindyBill who wrote (34592)7/18/2002 12:21:55 PM
From: Dayuhan  Read Replies (1) of 281500
 
I guess we have been trying to kill off guerrillas in the Philippines since about 1898.

That's a long story, one I know all too well. I hope it never becomes an issue here; I'll bore everybody to death with detail.

When Marcos took office the combined strength of the two competing communist guerilla movements was about 250; they had a presence in 6 provinces of central Luzon and were primarily concerned with trying to get rid of each other.

When he left, they had 40,000 under arms, another 40,000 in training, had a significant level of control over a third of the country, and were rapidly approaching strategic parity with the armed forces.

A year after he left, they had less than 20,000, and were in the process of completely falling apart.

It was an interesting sort of bulwark against communism. An interesting exercise in moral clarity as well....
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