A Word on Downer’s Criticism

MY TWO CENTS:

Australian Foreign Minister Alexander Downer has repeatedly claimed that the Philippines and Spain has emboldened the terrorists in Iraq by negotiating with them. How about thinking abut how this all began anyway? If George W. Bush, Tony Blair and their very own PM Howard had not acted harshly by defying UN and started a war in Iraq, all this finger-pointing would not have happened. Instead of blaming the Philippines and Spain for allegedly emboldening these so-called terrorists, how about facing the problem head on? Evaluating the occupation in Iraq and how it is being handled would be a good place to start at.

And to the Philippines, especially President Arroyo, did we really think the pull-out would not have this kind of backlash?