THROWBACK TO 70S GAME STRATEGY ‘Full-fledged colony’ Progressive lawmakers Neri Colmenares and Carlos Isagani Zarate of Bayan Muna had lamented that the Agreement on Enhanced Defense Cooperation and the “fasttracking” by Congress of the proposed Charter change was again “slowly but surely” transforming the country into a “fullfledged colony” of the US. Bayan Muna said that aside from the defense agreement, the proposed changes to the Constitution are designed to “open up our economy to foreign ownership and control.” “The Filipino people ousted the bases in 1991 not only because their presence violated our sovereignty but they were also magnets for attack from the many enemies of the United States. The presence of US troops here will increase the tension in the region and threaten its stability. We do not want to become another Iraq where the US troops remained even if Saddam Hussein had long been dead. We should stand up against China’s bullying but we should get the support of the international community instead of the US. We will win the cases we filed against China under Unclos because China has no evidence to back up its territorial claim. This is the more powerful and peaceful way of dealing with China,” said Colmenares. “The US has a lot of enemies around the world, and we can be embroiled in war if there is an armed attack against the US because we are bound under the MDT to help in cases of attacks against them. This is dangerous and only makes us cannon fodder no different from how the US treated our war veterans during World War II. The international community, not the United States, is the source of the most effective support we can get against China’s bullying,” Zarate added.
Posted on: Mon, 17 Mar 2014 06:39:34 +0000
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