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….of the COAM (Coalition of Appeasement Monkey’s). When last heard from in yesterdays post President Gloria Arroyo had put up a brave, but at times bumbling, front to secure the release of the Filipino hostage currently being held in Iraq.

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On Wednesday newly “minted” [minted as in built, constructed, or made, as opposed to freely elected] Vice President Noli de Castro said his country “will not be cowed and be blackmailed by acts of terrorists.” Pretty strong words but as not…

Currently there are over 4,000 Filipino migrant workers in Iraq, and hundreds of thousands more in the region. Arguably much more vulnerable than say, US armed forces parading in their tanks don’t you think?

Maybe this accounts for the apparently indecisive foreign policy. The Philippines cannot afford unilateral actions (and not be sanctioned heavily for it) as the US can.

Sorry – I meant OCWs (Overseas Contract Workers).

The decision may be wobbly, but it is wise to step back if situation requires it. The reality is, the situation in Iraq cannot be controlled by the mighty US Army and there is no point putting up a tough and unvacillating approach

The situation in Iraq will soon become politically unbearable. I don’t think the american leadership can sustain the embarrassment of Iraq for another two years.

What’s up with the hair?

His artistic skills remind me of nothing so much as the scribblings of a junior-high loner, scratched out on notebook paper and passed around the study hall to the sound of muffled giggles. His political reasoning is not much more advanced. He spews hateful and slanderous epithets toward anyone to the right of Fidel Castro.

And yet, just yesterday, John Edwards said it is time to put an end to the politics of hate and character assasination – maybe this is what he meant… but I doubt it.

Does that mean that they’re not allow to simply travel there or that they’re not allowed anywhere near the nation?

In either case, this decision will be hardest felt on OCRs…..

It’s one thing for Captain Ed to jump to the conclusion that the Philippines is going soft on terrorism; it’s another for Michelle Malkin, of Filipino descent, to get it wrong. What appears as “wobbly” to us is standard-operating procedure in the P…

“Al-Jazeera’s newscaster said the Filipino is an employee of a Saudi company that works for the U.S. military.”

when compared to this….

“Take, for example, the video of Kim’s beheading. Al-Jazeera and the Lebanese LBC presented the video, which al-Jazeera said it had received from a group linked to al-Qaida, as if the terrorists were part of the Iraqi resistance against the Americans and their allies. Al-Jazeera did not note what any person knowledgeable about the region’s dialects would have known: that the terrorists who appeared in the video and read the “verdict” that justified Kim’s killing were not Iraqi and therefore not part of the Iraqi resistance. They clearly spoke a dialect from the Saudi heartland of Najd.”

The first quote is from the Yahoo article Michelle linked to.

The second is from Mamoun Fandy’s “Dying for airtime: Arab media’s role in terror”

By the way all, a check of the website of the Philippine Embassy in Riyadh yielded no travel advisory, at least one I could find, to Philippine nationals. Rather odd considering three Filipinos were slaughtered in Khobar.

There was however this reminder in bright red letters at the top of the main page:

“The Embassy wishes to remind all Filipinos in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia to observe Saudi Laws, and respect local customs and traditions. Saudi Arabia is an Islamic country that implements Islamic Shariah laws. As guests in Saudi Arabia, let us remember and respect this. Thank You!!”

Isn’t that thoughtful?