Bravo, De Quiros!

From the irascible Conrado De Quiros:

The world may no longer trust the Philippines to do the right thing when a Filipino is endangered? Well, why should we want to endanger any Filipino to begin with, and for no other reason than to support a war that has proven as ugly and iniquitous as the Vietnam War? The only way to turn our pullout of troops from Iraq into an act of principle and not of cowardice is to reject that war, as we should have done from the start. The only way to rise from these ashes is to say that henceforth we will follow our own stars, friend to America but only as a sovereign and self-respecting nation and never as a vassal.

The full essay is here.