Was U.S. interfering in Manila ?

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November 21, 2010

( Pittsburgh Post Gazette)
ROUND TABLE
Feb. 26, 1986

Every week, the Post-Gazette poses a question to a roundtable of Pittsburgh-area residents. They speak only for themselves.
The question this week is:

Did U.S. pressure on Ferdinand Marcos amount to interference in the Philippines sovereign affairs?

* Ronald B. Saunders, chairman, The National Black Political Caucus: The United States under both Republican and Democratic administrations has shown a lack of comprehension and gross naivete in dealing with the complexities of South East Asia, and the Far East.
Indeed, we have continued to support unpopular, corrupt, dictatorial regimes around world and those regimes have not been in the best interests of the majority of the indigenous natives in those countries.
The U.S. government has permitted its niggardly greed and geo-political interests to take precedence over the will and self-determination of the populace in many of the Countries in South East Asia.
What we have recently witnessed in the Philippines is the inconsistent, flip flop foreign policy of the Reagan administration coupled with the President's irresponsible flippant remarks about voter fraud, which only helped to exacerbate a volatile situation. The Reagan administration had been a staunch supporter of Marcos and when the going got tough the administration left him out to dry-- just as the Carter administration did with the Shah of Iran.



* SOUND FAMILIAR!