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angelito and roberto
so many thoughts in my head now.
u.n. diplomat angelito nayan and accountant roberto tarongoy are held captive by militants. nayan is held by a taliban-linked group and tarongoy held hostage in iraq. u.s. officials say philippine officials should negotiate for the release of the two on their own. maybe philippine officials do have a chance because those who took them might sympathize that the philippines isn't part of the G7 or the G8 - it's another developing country same as theirs.
nayan and tarongoy were taken because they were linked to powers that subjugate afghanistan and iraq - not because they were filipino.
how come u.s. officials can't see that? or... or... could it be that u.s. officials just won't? that they're still smarting over angelo? hmm! can we get any smaller-minded than that?
so many thoughts in my head right now.
i'm also waiting for my copy of "the forbidden book." i'm not sure how this book will affect me, but it reminds me of a lecture on the pacific end of world war 2 that my history professor gave several years ago.
one of the things that stuck in my mind is how several dozens of u.s. soldiers died just trying to take a small island near australia. the island was a stepping stone to get to australia, the philippines, with the goal of eventually taking japan. somehow macarthur and his troop managed to skirt australia and land in the philippines. in between war steps my prof switched back to what was being decided in washington d.c. he mentioned president madison and the manifest destiny. people in my class were yawning, and i was too distracted to follow - a caucasian professor knew something about the philippines' world war 2 experience! they knew about it here! prof. pitt is too young to have had a say in things then. but they knew! if a lot more people understood it the same way he did, would things have changed in the philippines?
seeing peoples' eyes glaze over, pitt had us write 5-page paper parroting back everything he said - all 50 minutes of it, and into just 5 pages. i groaned. i still groan now. i want to remember what was taught to me in high school. it'd make this blog entry clearer. world history in the 10th grade was eurocentric. anything with asia and the philippines then, and until now, is always new and fresh to me. ¶ 11/09/2004 05:58:00 PM
u.n. diplomat angelito nayan and accountant roberto tarongoy are held captive by militants. nayan is held by a taliban-linked group and tarongoy held hostage in iraq. u.s. officials say philippine officials should negotiate for the release of the two on their own. maybe philippine officials do have a chance because those who took them might sympathize that the philippines isn't part of the G7 or the G8 - it's another developing country same as theirs.
nayan and tarongoy were taken because they were linked to powers that subjugate afghanistan and iraq - not because they were filipino.
how come u.s. officials can't see that? or... or... could it be that u.s. officials just won't? that they're still smarting over angelo? hmm! can we get any smaller-minded than that?
so many thoughts in my head right now.
i'm also waiting for my copy of "the forbidden book." i'm not sure how this book will affect me, but it reminds me of a lecture on the pacific end of world war 2 that my history professor gave several years ago.
one of the things that stuck in my mind is how several dozens of u.s. soldiers died just trying to take a small island near australia. the island was a stepping stone to get to australia, the philippines, with the goal of eventually taking japan. somehow macarthur and his troop managed to skirt australia and land in the philippines. in between war steps my prof switched back to what was being decided in washington d.c. he mentioned president madison and the manifest destiny. people in my class were yawning, and i was too distracted to follow - a caucasian professor knew something about the philippines' world war 2 experience! they knew about it here! prof. pitt is too young to have had a say in things then. but they knew! if a lot more people understood it the same way he did, would things have changed in the philippines?
seeing peoples' eyes glaze over, pitt had us write 5-page paper parroting back everything he said - all 50 minutes of it, and into just 5 pages. i groaned. i still groan now. i want to remember what was taught to me in high school. it'd make this blog entry clearer. world history in the 10th grade was eurocentric. anything with asia and the philippines then, and until now, is always new and fresh to me. ¶ 11/09/2004 05:58:00 PM
