>Hey, it's great to know you guys over there know things about this almost God-forsaken country of ours. In a lot of ways, Americans must be thankful (very in fact) on how your government is working.
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I've never been to the Philippines but when I lived in San Francisco in the 70s I knew the Lopez family who were there in a pretty comfortable exile. Henny Lopez was being held hostage along with Benigno Aquino at the time. My girlfriend worked for Don Eugenio and was a schoolmate of most of the major players - including Corey. I think she even knew Bong Bong ( god I loved that name ) She was the exiled wife of a pretty high official in Marcos' government. I got all the good gossip.

I heard about the Wolfewitz thing from a friend who knows him and it really helped put into perspective the position he was taking on Iraq. That's when I started reading his whitepapers on the middle east and reading Kenneth Pollack and Daniel Pipes.

By the way, if you can ever find a copy of "All the Trouble in the World" by American journalist and humorist P.J.O'Rourke there is a terrific chapter about the Flower Power Revolution.

But of course your right - croneyism doesn't have to be run by Marcos and there is still that burning mountain with people living on it and the rich folks just don't seem to care.



>Having said the above, I would rather have Marcos back! At least to my mind, there was only ONE as against A WHOLE MOB of plunderers! And even if he did take some, he left a lot of legacies like infrastructure, stable govt...
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>WHERE HAVE ALL THE GOOD MEN GONE? WE NEED A HERO!
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>To me, this is terrorism in a different form. Perhaps the US can find ways to help us in this regard? =)