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MrScorpio

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3. This is the danger of America setting the bad example
Wed Aug 24, 2016, 05:40 PM
Aug 2016

Tyrants are all free to use the atrocities that we commit, against us, in order to justify their own.

Once we criticize the crimes of others, we're then we're accused of being hypocrites.

That tactic doesn't work so well for us, as much as it does for those tyrants in order to solidify their own power bases. It resonates quite well for them.

This message isn't for the US, as much as it is for Duarte showing his own people that he's standing up to the US.

This country has had a long and checkered history with The Philippines. Looks like relations are headed towards a downward trend.

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