Re: china donates bulldozers to pinas military


"tumbaga" <tanso@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
news:11s3g78lg228rdf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Sylvia Knörr wrote:
> > "raven simone" <bernardsongco@xxxxxxxxx> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
> > news:1136348317.542650.212930@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

> >>you need attack planes to bomb rebels

> > It didn't work in Vietnam, it didn't work in Iraq, so why do you think
it
> > could work in the Philippines? Rebels don't make good military targets.
> > The money to maintain an attack plane is better invested to educate the
> > people of the insurgent regions about more effective farming methods,
> > sustainable forest management, tourism etc. Help them to make a living
is
> > probably more effective to appease them than fighting against them.

> Money and its possibilities reduces more insurgencies than outright
> bombing, but not in all places.
>
> Anyway, in Peru for example, where there is an economic boom as I have
> seen <cash coming in from Europe and Asia> the members of "Sendero" got
> too busy making money that to lose that cash became much more important.
>
> One taxi driver my boss and I met was trying to get to the US and forgot
> about his commitment to the group, his mind is in making more money.


Good thing. The Sendero Luminoso was not helping the people anyway, it was
more like a terrorist gang. The poor people sometimes only had the choice of
whethter to be killed by the army or be killed by the Sendero guys.

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