"Most unwelcome and take this killing machine out of here, please."
This is how we greet today the arrival of the US warship USS Carl Vinson, the warship that carried the body of Osama bin Laden and the Navy Seals who killed him.
As people in the world have mixed reactions on the US army's killing of bin Laden, the arrival of this warship in Philippine waters sends a wrong signal that the country welcomes the US war of aggression.
It is twice the shame also that President Benigno Aquino III toured this warship and expressed awe and praise to the US troops. The President should know better that these US-led war on terror has been responsible to the deaths, injuries and abuses of Mindanao people in the past nine years under the Balikatan joint military exercises.
In similar ways, the 9-11 incident and US-led war on terror has resulted to the deaths of civilians and a state of Islamophobia, and should be both condemned. Also condemnable is the US continuing hegemony in Asia-Pacific to establish further their geo-political and economic hold in this region.
We are dismayed that as Congress is pushing for the review of the Visiting Forces Agreement, Aquino goes all out with praise to the US. It signals that Aquino is the new ally of the US in perpetrating their hegemony in the Asia Pacific.
We all the more we urge the people to stand against US militarism, aggression and interventionism. Let global justice be our call and not war of aggression.
Bishop Rudy Juliada
Convenor
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