Monday, August 25, 2008
Mess in Mindanao - WSJ.com
I have to wonder what's going on here.
Caving in to violent terrorists never worked in the schoolyard, so how could anyone expect it to work here?...
Caving in to violent terrorists never worked in the schoolyard, so how could anyone expect it to work here?...
The Wall Street Journal describes what's going on:
"In Southeast Asia's battle against terrorism, a flub in one country can have repercussions around the region. That's the danger in the Philippines, where Manila's strategy of negotiating with terrorists has come a cropper.
The Moro Islamic Liberation Front is a violent group that claims large swathes of the southern island of Mindanao as its Muslim homeland. Late last month, President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo announced a peace agreement that promised autonomy. But the deal started falling apart when the Supreme Court blocked it in the face of a legal challenge. The rebels responded by hacking or shooting 37 people to death and forcing 44,000 more to flee their homes."
