I got the following from here:
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"Bello has campaigned for years for the withdrawal of US military bases in the Philippines, Okinawa and Korea, and has helped set up several regional coalitions dedicated to denuclearisation and demilitarisation, and a new kind of security plan based on meeting people's needs."
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If the US withdraws from the Pacific Rim, what happens to Taiwan? It will be invaded and Bello will moan about human rights infractions. But you and I know that moaning won't change anything and it won't save lives. What saves lives is the presence of US military bases in the region. Does Bello think that appeals to fairness and justice will end slavery and gulags in North Korea? Or does he think harsh language would stop PLA bullets and Hu Jintao from invading Taiwan? Will North Korea denuclearize or demilitarize without the threat of US force? Will China denuclearize or demilitarize under any circumstances?
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"After September 11 2001, he was a leading voice from the South urging the USA not to resort to military intervention - which he believed would exacerbate the problem - but to tackle the root causes of terrorism in poverty, inequality, injustice and oppression."
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Osama bin Laden is the son of a billionnaire. Osama himself has a personal worth of several hundred million US dollars. The nineteen men who carried out the airplane attacks in the United States were from middle-class Arab families (mostly from Egypt). As I understand it, September 11 was primarily motivated by a desire to expel kaffirs (i.e. unbelievers. i.e. United States troops) from the Arab holy land and the desire to revive the traditional Muslim caliphate (i.e. the traditional Muslim empire which encompassed everything from Austria down to Iraq down to Egypt over to Morrocco up to and including Spain). What do "poverty, inequality, injustice and oppression" have to do with a millionnaire and a bunch of middle-class professionals making a political statement by killing 3000 people in the NY World Trade Center? If memory serves, Osama bin Laden didn't mention Israel and Palestine in his explanation of the events leading up to September 11 either.
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Back to the Philippines for a moment. If the Philippines had joined the United States, instead of opting for independence back in 1946, it would now have a high standard of living comparable to Hawaii or Alaska. What's more important to Professor Bello? A high standard of living for the people as members of the federation of the United States? Or political independence, ethnic pride, and the pervasive poverty (and accompanying criminality) which reigns throughout the Philippines today? I think we both know which he would want. A socialist typically presumes people are too stupid to take care of themselves. They need help. A capitalist presumes people are more than smart enough. They don't need help. In other words, and this is my personal experience as well, socialists despise 'the people'. Capitalists respect them and take them seriously. How much intelligence does it take to run a grocery store or a breakfast hamburger stand? Look at how many dumb people succeed in business. This is the beauty of capitalism. Even a moron can succeed at it. Many do. So why does a smart guy like Prof. Bello pretend that people are so stupid that they can't buy and sell stuff for a nominal profit? This is one of the reasons why I don't trust people like him. He knows too much to really believe what he says.
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Also worth mentioning is this: "The ancestors of the Philippines' aboriginal inhabitants—the Negritos or Aeta—come from the Asian mainland, crossing shallow seas and land bridges. (Archaeological evidence suggests that the Philippines may have been inhabited many thousands of years before then, but that can't be stated with certainty. The oldest human fossil found so far is 22,000 years old.)" ( http://www.infoplease.com/spot/philippinestime1.html)
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Does Professor Bello favor giving the Philippines back to the black people who first discovered it? The Philippines were stolen from them by the present day Malay inhabitants. If he cares about fairness and justice, I presume he advocates repatriation of all people of Malay blood back to the Asian mainland. The black aborigines who live in the Philippine highlands today should be given back all of their ancestral homelands. I would be curious to hear what he had to say about this. Does this sound ridiculous? I hope so. But so does all of socialism... haha... Have fun, don't work too hard, and good luck...
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