By Joseph Thomas – New Eastern Outlook – 31.05.2017 Recently, terrorist attacks have unfolded across Indonesia, a militant network disrupted along the Thai-Malaysian border and full-scale military operations including aerial bombing deployed as Philippine troops fought to take back Marawi City on the southern island of Mindanao, all linked or affiliated with the Islamic State. […]
What would it take for you to strap a bomb to your body and blow yourself and anyone and anything around you into a million little pieces? One cannot be compensated for such an activity, so in this sense, all the gold of Croesus would not be at all meaningful.
Furthermore, all great religious texts forbid such an act. True, one could simply lie about what these texts say to a young, stupid and desperate individual, but this would still only account for an infinitesimally small number of suicide bombers.
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Rodrigo Duterte is in the midst of waging total war against ISIS fighters in southern Philippines. It is a war that must be won and Duterte intends to win it. Here are some things that can and should be done to help hasten the victory and keep the people of Philippines safe.
1. Naval Blockade
The presence of ISIS in Philippines is generally confined to the southern island of Mindanao. It is there that ISIS have largely conquered the city of Marawi although the Philippine army continues to make important gains.
The only word I find for it is cloddish. I refer to the latest CIA-instigated attempt to initiate regime change against outspoken Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte. The so-called ISIS terror attack in the minerals-rich southern Philippines island of Mindanao, a predominately Muslim part of the mostly Christian nation of 100 million people, took place literally in the midst of President Duterte’s talks in Moscow with Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte has extended an olive branch to two long-time Philippine insurgent groups in a bid to create a fully united front against ISIS.
Duterte takes clear lead in Philippine elections. (Photo: IBT)
Andrew Korybko
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North Korea has yet again launched a ballistic missile which has landed in Japan’s maritime exclusive economic zone. No one was hurt during the launch. Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe vowed to work with the US to take “specific action” against Pyongyang.
Moscow meanwhile expressed dissatisfaction with North Korea’s launch but called on all parties to show “restraint”.
Even as ISIS have conquered the Philippine city of Marawi, some of President Rodrigo Duterte’s opponents want to play politics during an unambiguous time of war.
President Duterte has put the southern Philippine island of Mindanao under martial law for 60 days according to existing provisions of the Constitution with an option to extend martial law should the war against ISIS intensify. Contrary to false reports in the western media, Duterte has not put the entire country under martial law.
