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Subject: Philippines sucks
moderator    3/17/2003 2:12:44 AM
don't you guys think that the philippines military is basically useless. I mean they can't even protect thierselves from terrorist. EM
 
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mondpowers    RE:Philippines sucks   2/12/2005 12:21:03 AM
wagner95696 & goldeneyeman are correct. Politicians & generals are the ones to blame. just give me a immigrant visa and i'll gladly get out this damn country. any takers? :) explain this....how come most of these flips succeed outside their country?
 
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TARSIER    RE:Philippines sucks   2/13/2005 12:25:46 PM
The Philippines SUCKS, who are you kidding, its one of the most beautiful countries in the world. I will give you that the politics suck.. Manila has less than 6% unemployment, Mindanao on the other hand has 47%. The muslims have recieved many promises, and that is just what they get PROMISES, PROMISES and more promises..if people have work to do and a pride in doing it they would have far less time or heartfelt inclination for warfare. A muslim can see paradise if he takes care of his family on this earth (a promise held out in the Koran) a difficult thing to do without any work. At present they have idle hands and no money and are easy pickings for the radicals.
 
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mondpowers    RE:Philippines sucks   2/14/2005 10:08:38 PM
useless for foreign threats, yeah they even can't get a coup right. just look at that oakwood incident, they have no balls. i've been to the military academy in baguio, from what i've seen, i guess they do train their officers right.Somewhere along their tours of duty, the officers got suck in. now we have is one of the most corrupt militaries in this part of the world. I've talked to a friend of mine who works on one of the ship docking dacilities of the PN. He said that the low ranking ship captains are just like piranhas. They demand huge kickbacks on any contract that goes in there. Just imagine the admirals and the generals. Back here we have a different meaning of our premier military school. (PMA) P = Philippine M = Millionaires A = Academy
 
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Commander    RE:Philippines sucks   3/25/2005 12:06:45 AM
Those politicians and generals are to blame. The people are also partialy to blame like in the last election. They voted an actor with no political experience, is a highschool drop out and lived his life as an actor from three better politicians. And if the economy went bad the actor will be the one to be blamed. In my belief this nation those not need a democratic government but a dictatorship. But the dictator should not be corrupt.
 
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Commander    RE:Philippines sucks   3/25/2005 12:09:15 AM
moderator, this nation those not suck its only that we addopted the Spanish culture we were better of until those so called men-of-god came in this country.
 
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Tangosaurus    RE:Philippines sucks   2/24/2006 9:40:47 PM
The Philippines didn't particularly adopt the Spanish culture so much as got it shoved down their throat, about 360 years ago. And then, as part of the Spanish-American war, ended falling under American colonialism through the 20th century. Everyone's griping about the politians - how do those politians get into power? Perhaps it's a combination of vested interestes and free elections. There are bountiful supplies of untapped natural resources, including in Mindanao, but they lie dormant as people squabble between each other, instead of working for the common good of all.
 
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watchman    RE:Philippines sucks   7/21/2006 3:18:05 AM
Sad to say you are right. The Philippine Military is its worst enemy. The military ranks are very restive. Now & then some disgrunted officers plan to launch a coup that would cause political instability. The generals togetheir with their political masters are very corrupt.
 
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Cathii03       2/20/2010 1:33:58 AM
Men !! you should go to Philippines first before you judge the military ! You dont even know how hard to be in a military ! you dont even know how they run it. They could protect theirselved if THEY WANT TO. Filipinos are kind and nice, for me. If you lost a war you cant just say their USELESS! at least they tried it than you, maybe you cant even do how soldiers do. My grandpa is a soldier, he FOUGHT in World War II, Hes a filipino and hes still alive! dont tell our soldiers are useless! your useless because you just run in the internet type a sentence/paragraph that aint true and never even seen it. even though Philippines is a corrupt country, at least they know how to respect and do their best to each other, because we call  them SOLDIERS. http://www.strategypage.com/CuteSoft_Client/CuteEditor/Images/face23.gif" align="absMiddle" border="0" alt="" />
 
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cwDeici       2/20/2010 2:23:47 PM

don't you guys think that the philippines military is basically useless. I mean they can't even protect thierselves from terrorist. EM


Yes, they're useless in helping my friends who live there as well when there's natural disasters. I still think they're better than the politicians and corrupt parts of the aristocracy who voted them out of the US without asking the population though.
 
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cwDeici       2/20/2010 2:31:29 PM

Hmmm, reading the above post maybe the military is almost as or just as bad as the pols.

 
Men !! you should go to Philippines first before you judge the military ! You dont even know how hard to be in a military ! you dont even know how they run it. They could protect theirselved if THEY WANT TO. Filipinos are kind and nice, for me. If you lost a war you cant just say their USELESS! at least they tried it than you, maybe you cant even do how soldiers do. My grandpa is a soldier, he FOUGHT in World War II, Hes a filipino and hes still alive! dont tell our soldiers are useless! your useless because you just run in the internet type a sentence/paragraph that aint true and never even seen it. even though Philippines is a corrupt country, at least they know how to respect and do their best to each other, because we call  them SOLDIERS. http://www.strategypage.com/CuteSoft_Client/CuteEditor/Images/face23.gif" />



So basically you're telling us that since your suckage is not complete, you don't suck?
I'm not sorry telling you the good qualities you mentioned, being able to defend yourself from militia and perform basic patrols, are the mere foundations of military quality. And many of these people saying your military suck are soldiers. I have American soldiers helping out the Phillipines with disaster work and Phillipino friends who think their country is stunted in terms of self improvement and endemic corruption. One of my Phillipino friends tended to have communist sympathies, and I've finally come to understand why, your upper class is often horribly, perversely corrupt. Are you a part of it? That'd explain why you think the Phillipines is so nice and tidy, as you'd be comfy and happy. Or maybe you're not and just proud and nationalistic.
 
At any rate, it is rather sad for you to basically say that you're not a failed state so you don't suck. I mean, what... congratulations? You're not Africa or a muslim-dominant country... yet you're behind non-communist Latin American nations. Yay! All this goes for the military.
 
However I do note after running away from a single person being captured in Iraq and then almost signing away your south to an angry muslim minority within the muslim minority your military is showing strong signs of improvement amidst increased counterterrorism and counterinsurgency efforts and cooperation with America and other modern western and eastern countries.
 
 
 
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