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To: jimbopost who wrote (77284)	2/26/2003 12:46:02 AM
From: Dayuhan	Respond to of 281500

President Bush made his position clear to other nations about terrorists "… Either you're with us or you're against us! …" That statement was irretrievably stupid, and deserves to be covered up and forgotten, not reiterated at every opportunity. Suppose the US is invited in to help clean out the MILF. Trust me on this: we won’t be. Even if we were, the effort would serve no useful purpose and would be made in pursuit of an unachievable goal. If you want to question this assertion, you may, but unless you are unusually well informed about Mindanao and the issues surrounding it, I’d suggest letting the opportunity pass. The US would "set up a military installation in Southern Mindanao to support unilateral operations there and in Indonesia." This would provide the US two positions in the Islamic Crescent. The US may not need a base of operations at the other end of the crescent as long as it has Britain as an ally. This cannot be done without the cooperation of the Governments involved. This sort of activity would have been unlikely to meet approval in any event, and the way the US has been treating its regional allies makes cooperation even less likely. Unilateral action in this region would be counterproductive and pointless. It seems as though the administration's views about alliances e.g., UN and NATO, are a hindrance. ASEAN is not about to be excepted if there are any objections. Maybe the administration feels that all alliances should be reformed. “Reformed”, meaning that other nations should do whatever we tell them to do, even to the extent of ignoring their own laws and the opinions of their own people? That’s a mighty strange way of promoting democracy.