The Pinoys roll over? Say it ain't so!

This is really disappointing. I got to know a couple of soldiers while I was in the Philippines, and they seemed like decent guys. And I know that they've got some tough hombres in there. But if the leadership caves and calls them all back, well, that's got to be frustrating for a lot of people. Including me. I'd always thought that your average Filipino was someone not to be messed with. Loving, caring, don't piss them off. One of them once told me that Americans were wusses, because "We can drive a steel rod through someone's head and sleep soundly that night, and you Americans just can't do that." And that just doesn't sound like the kind of people who would roll over just because a bunch of guys in masks threaten to cut off someone's head.

Of course, I was in Region 8, specifically on the islands of Samar and Leyte. That's where MacArthur and his soldiers went in when they freed the Philippines from the Japanese. And there were quite a few people there who remembered what that was like. -sigh-