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This is better than Floyd Mayweather vs Manny Pacquiao.
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.Loose tongue. He now represents a country, and with it comes responsibility.
Obama is the face of American, the person who holds the office of president, and represent it, so if someone is insulting it, infact insulting America itself as a state.
It is just not this one incident, look at the bigger geopolitical picture. America has become its own enemy. From Philippines to Turkey, to grass root levels , the goodwill that once existed for America has long gone. There was a time when questioning America in Pakistan was considered blasphemy and I am witness to that period, how from that extreme we have come to present situation. Tell tail signs are there, signs of a power in decline. America is telling its Anglo Saxon Aussie cousins to choose between China or them. American presence in greater ME is now reduced to Israel. Picking up unnecessary fights with other powers like Russia and China.
"The Philippine president showed a picture of the killings of American soldiers in the past and the president said: 'This is my ancestor they killed. Why now we are talking about human rights,'" an Indonesian delegate said.
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Duterte can say what he likes when he is in the Philippines. Their country, their rules.
For goodness sake, he is in Laos attending an international conference.
When he is overseas, he has to be more careful in what he says.
This will reflect very badly on him and will come back to bite him later.
I knew it. President Duterte's sentiment is not necessarily toward US criticism of his clean-up efforts. His sharp diplomatic language is not personally against President Obama.
His target is the US regime. His sentiment is historical, directed toward the continuing, centuries long colonization.
It is not a case of their country their rules as here another country's head of state is involved. He could say and do anything we want about his own country, but "should" adhere to protocol.
He is behaving like a lot of career politicians behave when among low class street urchin voters. Most of them drop that mode of talk when they have to deal with head of states of other countries; apparently Duerte does not.
He is not tagreting anyone. He has just not shifted out of "street urchin" mode that politicians employ to get low class voted in any democracy. He talks in this way with everyone, apart from dressing like a bum.
You people are mistaking it for a policy shift because you never had democracy so you could know no better.
I really think the dude is on some quality stuff - the same stuff that he promises to get rid of from his country.
Why else would you pick on the ONE guy who could/would stand by with you in your fight against a well-known bully in the region?
Looks like Pinoy is not appreciative of your SCS support. Maybe US shall switch side and support China in SCS issue to stop further humiliation and show your American pride.Your definition of respect is shallow. Obama isn't a strongman dictator that needs to act tough to survive and respond to every single petty insult and slight. If you think this translates to no respect for America, then I ask you why isn't Duterte pushing to remove American troops again? Why isn't he talking about leaving the MDT with the US.
Do you think the pope has lost respect because Duterte called him a son of a whore? Then why would Obama?
Its evident to everybody who has more power at their disposal between Duterte and Obama, and yes, China and America. So who thinks these sorts of petty insults make any difference to the US? Only those far from the levers of power who don't have to personally worry about geopolitical calculations.
Meanwhile there are consequences for his tirades.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/b...rket-loses-hundreds-of-millions-a7229696.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/06/world/asia/philippines-duterte-obama.html
sure he went down the same route, but that just confirms the point I made earlier, that he can't control himself, even if his outbursts hurt the national interests of Filipinos.
We can outdo you guys when it comes to insulting Obama anyday anyways, and if insults fazed him he would have long ago died in American politics.
Go ahead and crow that the US has lost respect, and then whine and stand on the sidelines the next time the US patrols through the SCS.
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Duterte can say what he likes when he is in the Philippines. Their country, their rules.
For goodness sake, he is in Laos attending an international conference.
When he is overseas, he has to be more careful in what he says.
This will reflect very badly on him and will come back to bite him later.