{"id":94122,"date":"2019-10-20T13:22:09","date_gmt":"2019-10-20T20:22:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=94122"},"modified":"2019-10-20T13:22:09","modified_gmt":"2019-10-20T20:22:09","slug":"us-activities-in-sri-lanka-are-reminiscent-of-what-they-did-in-the-philippines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2019\/10\/20\/us-activities-in-sri-lanka-are-reminiscent-of-what-they-did-in-the-philippines\/","title":{"rendered":"US activities in Sri Lanka are reminiscent of what they did in the Philippines"},"content":{"rendered":"

Asoka Kuruppu<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n

US ship visits, aircraft transits, and small unit exercises happening in Sri Lanka at the moment are reminiscent of what the US attempted with the Philippines.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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History tells us how the inherent and entrenched anxieties and phobias the US arms manufacturers and high military officials have, has led to building war bases all over the world.\u00a0 Massive military budgets and interventionist attitudes are leading to a resurgence of US bad behaviour in Sri Lanka fuelling a kind of Cold War with Asia.\u00a0 The US wants to show \u2018Who is Boss\u201d to emerging power bases of China and India.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

November 1992 US\/Philippines agreement was drawn up and ratified under the innocuous name of “Acquisition and Cross-Servicing Agreement\u201d (ACSA)\u00a0 giving the US, military access, to Philippine ports, airfields, and military installations. In hindsight, now we can conclude that it was existential anxiety in the US.\u00a0 However this unjustified fear on the part of the US-led to repercussions which undermined the Philippines morale, led to horrendous demonstrations and protest rallies which in turn led to violence, deaths, and injuries.\u00a0 Further, it gave rise to Amer\/Asian children, toxic waste at the former base sites and prostitution of Philippine women by returning U.S. military personnel.\u00a0 In other words, it did not end without leaving permanent scars in the Philippines psyche.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Now the US is\nstarting it all over again in Sri Lanka.  If we do not nip it in the bud,\nwe will end up in similar circumstances, if not worse. So do not encourage the\nUS to influence Sri Lanka and entrench themselves in the Sri Lankan political\nscene.  And better start saying `Yankees Go Home \u2018 now rather than later.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

An editorial, “Re-inventing the bases,” in the Philippine Daily Inquirer of November 23, 1994, wrote:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“As far as the Philippines is concerned, any arrangement that re-instates the bases in Philippine waters or on land in whatever euphemism they are labeled is unacceptable. What should be clear to the US is that among America’s Cold War allies, it is only the Philippines that decided to end the bases and that anti-bases sentiment still runs deeply and strongly.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If you don\u2019t believe me read the whole article:\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

http:\/\/www.hartford-hwp.com\/archives\/54a\/004.html#N39R<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Asoka Kuruppu US ship visits, aircraft transits, and small unit exercises happening in Sri Lanka at the moment are reminiscent of what the US attempted with the Philippines. History tells us how the inherent and entrenched anxieties and phobias the US arms manufacturers and high military officials have, has led to building war bases all […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-94122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94122","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=94122"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94122\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}