Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte isn’t messing around this week.
Then again, he’s rarely messing around, period. A few days ago, Duterte made headlines for a comment he made to his nation’s police. His nation has a well-known drug trafficking problem that the police have struggled to control. So in a speech to law enforcement, Duterte said to “kill the idiots” who resist arrest.
But drugs aren’t the only problem facing the Filipino people. Though you may not hear about it often, the country also has a serious issue with radical Islamic extremism.
In order to fight the terrorists on the ground, this week, Duterte issued orders that would be widely condemned in the West.
They also make quite a bit of sense.
See what exactly he gave his military the authority to do on the next page:
i say torch them all , they dont like it build them in your own$#%&!@*hole
Well think about it they bomb us !
Good for him and the Philippines
He knows that with Muslims you need extreme measures. He is trying to save his country
We need him america!!!
Magsaysay had the Huks to deal with in the 50s and beyond. Now Duterte has the Muslims. This kind of terrorism and armed insurgency is nothing new in the Philippines. They beat it once, leave them to it and they’ll do it again. Here again, the Muslims are hiding behind their “Mosques”. If they use them as armories and centers of terrorism then they are legitimate targets.
That may start civil war there and because of geography it might be difficult to win easily.
Sounds good to me.
Bombing mosques?$#%&!@*for tat! He’s doing what he has to do! It’s probably not right, I’ll just leave it at that.
Smart man