Return to the Philippines
Matus, Victorino
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...Two days after the hostage crisis was resolved, Philippine Defense Secretary Angelo Reyes told The Washington Post, "We need continued support and assistance from the United States in the fight against terrorism...
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...In June, Philippine soldiers at long last stumbled upon the Abu Sayyaf and their hostages—notably not on the remote island of Basilan but on the main island of Mindanao...
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...officials, from members of Congress to members of the president's cabinet...
...But with the fall of dictator Ferdinand Marcos in 1986, peaceful negotiations were brokered between the Moros and the new regime of Corazon Aquino...
...And the bases would even show movies for the local children (Shrek was extremely popular...
...Most notable was his brother-in-law, Osama bin Laden...
...troops been stationed at Clark or Subic Bay, events might have unfolded differently...
...The result was an autonomous Muslim region, with certain special privileges and rights...
...They should instead focus on training and the transfer of equipment to enhance the capability of Philippine security forces" Despite a few protests from an assortment of Muslims and leftists, support for the American presence was impressively high...
...State Department's terrorism list...
...B – Your Chances for Success in the Mail-Order Business...
...In a speech given at a Hoover Institution conference in Washington last June, Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz stressed that "we don't want to run things...
...presence should be maintained—and American forces even allowed to fight in the combat zones against rebel insurgents (currently illegal under Philippine law...
...Before that, conservative Republicans like Bruce Herschensohn, who ran against Barbara Boxer in 1992, could count on 40 percent or more of the Hispanic vote...
...After an intense firelight, the terrorists fled and the hostages were found...
...The founder of Abu Sayyaf, Abdurajak Janjalani, had fought alongside the mujahedeen in Afghanistan in the 1980s...
...He was nevertheless upbeat, mentioning that the Filipinos were "appreciative," and said it wascrucial to provide a "climate of security" because "a great deal is at stake...
...If Muslim militants and Communists threaten both U.S...
...Shortly after being abducted, Sobero was led away from the group, and as he cried and pleaded for his life, was mercilessly beheaded...
...But a larger issue loomed: What will happen to the U.S...
...The region is home to about 250 million Muslims, who have been moving eastward since the arrival of Sufi merchants in the 15th century in advance of the Spanish...
...In May of 2001, Abu Sayyaf terrorists stormed a resort on Palawan island and took 20 tourists hostage, including three Americans...
...She also thanked the Filipinos for all their efforts in bringing her ordeal to an end...
...But "even if Republicans throw her a life preserver, it may not be inflated," said a GOP consultant skeptical of the party's Hispanic outreach...
...involvement is now more than just a hostage-rescue effort—it's a second front in the war on terrorism...
...Lesson 2 – How to Get Started in the Mail-Order Business...
...Gray Davis ended up getting over 70 percent of the Latino vote—and the initiative passed...
...Nevertheless, their presence even as trainers had a clear impact...
...Bush obliged, saying, "We stand in solidarity with the Philip-pines," and upped our aid package from $2 million to $19 million...
...And then came September 11...
...He endured 67 days of torture—everything from cig-arette burns to the genitals to chairs smashed on his head—without spilling any secrets...
...One suspect fled—Ramzi Yousef, wanted in connection to the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, and later arrested in Pakistan...
...Ronald Reagan fared fairly well with Hispanics, getting 40 percent or more of their votes...
...Republicans should approach the Hispanic vote the way Reagan did, in a principled way," says Unz...
...Still, nation-building is something some experts worry about...
...Its OLD GLORY'S NEW GLORY.'fHE FLAG COMES SACK See the USA in Six times a year millions of Americans are reminded how very special this country is — as well as what makes it so...
...Hence the group's landing on the terrorism list alongside al-Qaeda...
...Crucial to Manila's acceptance of this arrangement was the condition that American troops not actively take part in raids against Abu Sayyaf or in rescue attempts for the American hostages...
...One can hope it will last a very long time...
...But it was still part of the Philippines, an arrangement insufficient for the hardliners who then created Abu Sayyaf...
...Meaning "bearer of the sword," Abu Sayyaf splintered from the larger Moro National Liberation Front in the late 1980s...
...Alarming as all this sounds, the United States still deemed it unnecessary to deploy troops to the troubled region...
...And so there is value and need for this enduring, strong, strategic partnership...
...Even Defense Secretary Reyes acknowledged that the 1991 decision by the Philippine senate to evict U.S...
...Inspiring...
...Dealing with these threats will be a more formidable task...
...Intent on setting up Muslim charities and schools in the southern Philippines, Khalifa also agreed to back the Abu Sayyaf in the early 1990s...
...Republicans also ran away from the pro-marriage Proposition 22...
...Party officials, for example, told Unz to drop Proposition 227, his initiative to dismantle bilingual education...
...Unfortunately, in the midst of the attack, Martin Burnham was killed along with another captive, Filipino nurse Deborah Yap...
...Lesson 4 – Some First Thoughts About Mail-Order Merchandise...
...Maria Garcia is a former "Reagan Democrat"—she switched parties in the 1990s because of the Republicans' socially conservative, pro-life plat-form...
...forces was "a dip, a low point" in the relationship between the two nations—a relationship that began more than 100 years ago...
...If the party is anti-immigrant, they are not going to get the immigrant vote," says Ron Unz, the millionaire opponent of bilingual education schemes and a former Republican candidate for governor...
...Hakim Abdul Murad was caught shortly thereafter and brought in for questioning by the police...
...Hispanics are "Reagan Democrats," he notes...
...And now they're looking to move all their operations to Southeast Asia...
...The State Department then published a list of terrorist organizations that included Abu Sayyaf, at which point renewed attention was given to the plight of the American hostages...
...Organizing a Muslim separatist movement required leadership, connections to influential foreign groups, and most of all, funding to procure weapons...
...embassy in Singapore and other facilities...
...In 1995, two notorious Muslim terrorists were discovered to be hiding out in the Philippines...
...This is how the now infamous al-Qaeda reached the Philippines...
...They considered it political poison...
...The MNLF—moro is the term for a Filipino Muslim—had battled on and off with the Philippine government 28 THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR • SEPTEMBER/OCTOBER 2002 since the 1960s, demanding better treatment, exclusive rights and independence from the rest of the country...
...They see the war on terrorism as a window of opportunity forthem to deal with their own national interest and eliminate threats to security in the Philippines...
...But their presence as a destabilizing force in the region was reason enough for the U.S...
...But it, too, passed overwhelmingly...
...Is the party of Gerry Parsky listening...
...The 1998 Republican gubernatorial candidate Dan Lungren even went on television to oppose it...
...We went through the Korean War with you, Vietnam, the Cold War and now the war against terrorism...
...The NPA is estimated to have as many as 12,000 fighters...
...RETURN TO THE PHILIPPINES BY VICTORINO MATUS When the Philippine senate voted in 1991 to end the leasing agreement it had with the United States over Clark Air Field and the naval base at Subic Bay, it probably didn't anticipate its country becoming a haven for Islamic terrorists and the next front in the war on terror...
...Wil- III son's aggressive support for Proposition 187—the 1994 initiative on social services for illegal aliens, which many Hispanics saw as nativist—gave His-panics an urgent motive to register Democrat...
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...It was the largest deployment of U.S...
...The one element of the Republican message that could appeal to Hispanics—its social conservatism—is almost entirely muted...
...The New People's Army, meanwhile, has increased in strength over the last few years, as the government has concentrated most of its firepower against Muslim extremists...
...Are Hispanics not entering the party because it is too conservative...
...It is highly recommended...
...But with Abu Sayyaf on the run—most estimates put its membership at less than 100, down from a high of 1,200—where will the new Filipino counterinsurgency troops be focused...
...military was called in to assist in the fight against the rebels...
...But things appeared to be getting worse as the weeks of captivity turned into months...
...Al-Qaeda is on the run in the Middle East," said a senior State Department official...
...It was liberal Republican Pete Wilson who ruptured the party's relations with them...
...In October, a smaller military liaison group will be arriving to help train and organize four light infantry battalions in addition to two more Light Reaction companies, backed by an extra $55 million in military aid...
...Hispanic registration doubled between 1992 and 1998, notes Unz...
...The secessionist Moro Islamic Liberation Front, which hasbeen setting up terrorist camps on a number of remote islands, has close to 10,000 members...
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...As Reyes said in a speech to the Heritage Foundation: "We went through World War II with you...
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...Gerald Parsky [the multimillionaire investment banker who serves as the White House's chief political adviser in California] will give an appointment to anyone with a Hispanic surname, but he doesn't understand them...
...The Philippines has long been a victim of terrorism and insurgencies that utilize terrorist and guerrilla tactics—asymmetric warfare, if you will," says Paolo Pasicolan...
...It was an act of aggression against the United States...
...We are here to help train with our Philippine friends, to help them as appropriate, but the United States is not looking for bases or new permanent presence in the Philippines or in this part of the world...
...That's because the editors of American Heritage magazine have a long history of making their readers see the USA through a very special perspective...
...Arab Muslims would enter the country through its porous borders and make contact with the militant Moros, provide them with weapons training and work together to bring down the government and its ally, the United States...
...All were careful to emphasize that American military personnel were not doing the job of the Philippine armed forces, but rather helping train them to be a better fighting force...
...Not that this translated into peace and security for Americans in the Philippines...
...It also turns out that Murad assisted the Abu Sayyaf in the use of explosives...
...and Philippine interests, and Washington is willing to help Manila deal with them, why say no...
...But the party's hesitancy about supporting her campaign may cost it the chance to turn her into a role model for Hispanics who haven't yet made that switch...
...troops—mostly Navy Seabees and Marine engineers—stayed behind to continue on infrastructure projects...
...When Arroyo came to Washington last November, she asked President Bush for assistance—not troops, but military equipment...
...But then, country club Republicans may not really want to understand them...
...But just as importantly, the Balikatan exercises also mark the much welcomed return of the Americans after a 10-year estrangement...
...The men who abducted and held us, who murdered and mistreated human beings, who kept us running and starving in the jungle, are criminals and deserve to be punished," Burnham told reporters on her way back to Kansas...
...It did better than Lungren did," says Unz...
...But over the next 10 years, that's exactly what happened, as the Muslim separatist struggle in the south continued to grow and the U.S...
...You can't tell Hispanics that you are going to remove 300,000 of their children from California schools—which Proposition 187 would have done if implemented according to its letter—and expect to get their votes...
...Republican officials need to reach out to more than just their caddies...
...To create a narrative that is at once revealing...
...advance books division of jomira/advance 470 Third St., #211, San Francisco, CA 94107 Victorino Matus is an assistant managing editor at The Weekly Standard...
...Until July 31, roughly 1,200 American soldiers were spread across several islands of the Philippines, including helicopter teams in Cebu, instructors for the Light Reaction Company in Luzon and a large contingent on the southernmost island of Mindanao...
...It will prove to be invaluable to you in almost whatever activity you ultimately decide to engage in...
...There is no strong evidence of ties between the NPA or the Moro Islamic Liberation Front and Osama bin Laden...
...SEPTEMBER/OCTOBER 2002 THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR 29 work...
...Joint exercises are scheduled to last until mid-2003...
...In January, Washington and Manila agreed to conduct six-month Balikatan—"shoulder to shoulder"—joint exercises...
...She is not the right sort of Hispanic...
...It costs $39.95 and includes a Workbook with all of the exhibits and a 3-Cassette AudioTape Set for studying at leisure while you drive...
...Khalifa, Osama's brother-in-law, departed the country in 1995 and never returned...
...The course is a virtual college education...
...For pro-choice plutocrats, someone like Garcia—a pro-life Reagan Republican—is more likely a cause for concern than celebration...
...Yet another Southeast Asian Muslim network, Jemaah Islamiyah, plotted to bomb the U.S...
...No, they are not entering it because it is too liberal...
...Had U.S...
...According to Secretary Reyes, the other two major threats facing his country are the Moro Islamic Liberation Front—an armed offshoot of the Moro National Liberation Front—and the New People's Army, the military arm of the Communist Party of the Philippines, which has been at war against the Philip-pine government for more than 30 years and was recently put on the U.S...
...In February, about 2,000 Filipinos in Zamboanga rallied on behalf of the U.S...
...Principles, not pandering, will appeal to them...
...One group proved especially problematic: Abu Sayyaf...
...Abu Sayyaf at this point began to lose its ideological fervor...
...Several members were recently arrested in the Philippines...
...A Republican assemblyman stood up and tried to argue that Hispanics were more pro-abortion than the general population—a deluded wish exposing a seemingly willful ignorance of a group crucial to the party's success in the state...
...Not until the police came disguised in foreign outfits and claiming to be Israeli Mossad agents threatening to send Murad back to Jerusalem did he finally confess—to everything from a plot to assassinate Pope John Paul II to the bombing of American commercial airliners and the planned crashing of a plane into CIA headquarters at Langley...
...It's not over...
...Khalifa was not only a source of money, he was the man with connections to other Islamic extremists in the Middle East...
...The Bush administration agreed...
...military operations into new areas where they are least effective," says Paolo Pasicolan, a policy analyst at the Heritage Foundation's Asian Studies Center...
...I asked Ramirez why he isn't Republican...
...it became, in the words of President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo, "a money-crazed gang of criminals...
...Everything we are doing is consistent to the Mutual Defense Treaty, the Visiting Forces Agreement of 1999," said Secretary of State Colin Powell...
...According to one senior Bush administration official, in the last few years, more than 5,000 Muslims from the Middle East came to Cebu, an island in the central Philippines and not even an area where Moros are concentrated...
...Throughout the exercises, Manila played host to a number of prominent U.S...
...citizens there...
...military, complete with singing, praying and the waving of Philippine and American flags...
...Some politicians opposed to Arroyo labeled the rescue a disaster because of the deaths of the other two hostages...
...After all, the Philippine military was supposedly gaining the upper hand in the war against Abu Sayyaf...
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...Hispanics, as economically liberal and socially conservative, represent the opposite of the country club agenda for the party...
...Instead, the United States was helpless, though receiving constant reassurance from Manila that the Philippine military was on the case and that the other kidnapped Americans—missionaries Martin and Gracia Burnham of Wichita, Kansas—would be home in no time...
...It also "strongly opposes any U.S...
...But for financial backing, he went to a Saudi businessman named Muhammad Jamal Khalifa...
...This threatens to expand U.S...
...One GOP insider recalls a ludicrous presentation on Hispanic outreach at a meeting for Republican donors in Palm Springs...
...presence in the Philip-pines and has killed U.S...
...Colin Powell described it as "Maoist," aimed at "overthrowing the Philippine government through guerrilla warfare...
...And though they comprise only 5 percent of the Philippine population, Muslims make up almost 90 percent of neighboring Indonesia—home to the Islamic militant group Laskar Jihad...
...When you think it's over, that's when they hit...
...military presence now that Americans are no longer held captive by Abu Sayyaf...
...With the full backing of the Arroyo administration, the United States sent over an Army assessment team—members of the Delta Force and Green Berets—to create a new and elite counterterrorist unit, the Light Reaction Company...
...By December, despite promises from Manila that the Burnhams would be united with their children by Christmas, it had become clear the Filipinos couldn't go it alone, even with military aid that subsequently swelled to $92 million, including eight Huey helicopters, a C-130 transport and 30,000 M-16s...
...30 THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR • SEPTEMBER/OCTOBER 2002 approximately 400 U.S...
...Only Gracia Burnham survived, a bullet wounding her in the leg...
...My heart is not there," he says...
...His severed head was put on a spike...
...And even if it's not quite the same as having the Seventh Fleet docked at Subic Bay, the bond between the Philippines and the United States is strengthening...
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...So as the Balikatan exercises wound down at the end of July, Even if ifs not quite the same as having the Seventh Fleet docked at Subic Bay, the bond between the Philippines and the U.S...
...And memorable...
...Hispanics voted in favor of traditional marriage more fervently than any other group in the state...
...Navy engineers started working on infrastructure projects such as rebuilding roads destroyed by the Abu Sayyaf...
...As luck would have it, bomb-making materials in their Manila apartment ignited, thereby alerting the local police...
...once again is strengthening...
...One was Guillermo Sobero of Corona, California...
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...He founded it in 1967...
...Hispanics still see the Republicans as the party of the rich...
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