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And go to your God like a soldierā€
General Douglas MacArthur

" ā€œWe are not retreating. We are advancing in another direction.ā€

ā€œIt is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it.ā€
ā€œOld soldiers never die; they just fade away.
ā€œThe soldier, above all other people, prays for peace,
for he must suffer and be the deepest wounds and scars of war.ā€
ā€œMay God have mercy upon my enemies, because I won't .ā€
ā€œThe object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.

ā€œNobody ever defended, there is only attack and attack and attack some more.
ā€œIt is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died.
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Which must always come to pass
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Pedro Branca (Pulau Batu Puteh) in the making, the island we lost to Singapore
Tuesday, February 19, 2013
They are armed, what is the Malaysian Armed Forces doing about this armed incursion? Over the years have they must have  turned into pussies, after being equipped with state of the art weapons? Or they just do not have the heart to go into battle? Amazing ain't it, from a formidable jungle fighting force, fighting the communists and Indonesians, we have turned out to be a bunch of pansies. Many young soldiers have been maimed and killed fighting the enemies of the state, preserving Malaysia's sovereignty.  Is this how we want to repay those who have been maimed and who have laid down their precious young lives by treating this invaders with kid gloves, instead of treating them like enemies of the state? More than 150 armed terrorist just "marched" into Lahad Datuk like their own grandfather's land and making stupid demands and our mentally challenged Kerismuddin and Zahid just could not wipe them out. They have been sleeping on the job!! Seriously are they fit for the job? 

Sabah Incursion Inspired by the Bay of Pigs Invasion By from the The Philippine and Malaysian governments better do something fast about the Sabah standoff before it erupts into a shooting war. The 100 armed followers of the sultan of Sulu are armed with assorted high-powered firearms. They must have gone to Sabah ready to fight. Why else would they have brought guns? The Sulu force is surrounded by Malaysian security forces. One false move and it can be mowed down. The leaders on both sides must have cool heads or the whole thing can deteriorate into a major tragedy. Both Philippine and Malaysian governments have urged the ā€œinvadersā€ to go back home, but the latter wonā€™t budge.  So what is there to do? 

The Sulu sultanā€™s followers understandably donā€™t want to go back home with their tails between their legs. On the other hand, the Malaysian government cannot let them stay either. They are clearly, from the Malaysian point of view, invaders, interlopers, outsiders. They have to be ejected, or it would be the Malaysian government that would lose face. The Philippine government either does not know what to do or does not want to get involved. But how can it not get involved when those are Filipinos out there? Yes, the Philippines has asked them to come home and ā€œletā€™s see what we can do later.ā€ But considering the many years that the Philippine government did nothing, obviously not wanting to ruffle the feathers of its wealthier and more powerful neighbor, will the Sultanate of Sulu still have faith in its government? 

In fact, the sultanā€™s followers say that they were forced to take this drastic action because the Philippine government has ā€œabandonedā€ them. But what must be in the minds of the sultan and his followers? Obviously, their measly force is no match to the Malaysian security forces. Perhaps what they had in mind was to wage a guerrilla war in Sabah, taking a cue from the successful guerrilla war that Fidel Castro waged in Cuba against the forces of Cuban dictator Fulgencio Batista. That is why they landed very far away from Sabahā€™s capital, Kota Kinabalu. Perhaps they are hoping that Sabahans would join them. Sabah, after all, is settled mostly by Tausug from Sulu. Many of them are most likely relatives of the ā€œinvadersā€ from Sulu. Sabah is only an hour away by  kumpit  from Tawi-Tawi, and residents from both sides routinely commute between them for trade. 

Indeed, Tawi-Tawi and Sabah folk consider themselves part of one island group.  Instead of igniting a Castro-style guerrilla war in Sabah, however, what the Sulu force achieved was more like the ill-fated Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba by Cuban exiles trained, equipped and sent by the United States during the administration of President John F. Kennedy. As was the Cuban government in the Bay of Pigs, the Malaysians were tipped of the ā€œinvasionā€ and were ready when the ā€œinvadersā€ arrived. In the Bay of Pigs, the ā€œinvadersā€ were routed by the Cuban forces. In Sabah, the Filipinos were fortunate that the Malaysian security forces did not open fire immediately but merely surrounded them, perhaps mindful of the bloody carnage that would have ensued.  The Philippine government has called for a peaceful solution to the standoff. 

Both sides are now in a flurry of negotiations with the leaders of the Sulu force who refuse to leave, saying that they should not be expelled as Sabah is part of the Sultanate of Sulu. ā€œWe are not invaders,ā€ they said, ā€œwe are just coming home.ā€ Going back to its origins, Sabah was indeed part of the Sultanate of Sulu. It was leased sometime in the 1800s by the British North Borneo Company for a yearly amount. When the Federation of Malaysia was formed, the British company handed it over to the new government of Malaysia. Up to recent years, Malaysia recognized the ownership of Sabah by the Sultanate of Sulu and paid it the annual lease.  The Philippine government raised the Sabah claim during the administration of President Ferdinand Marcos, which urged that the claim be decided by the world court or the United Nations. Malaysia, however, knowing that the Philippines had a valid claim, refused to take the case to an international body. 

The Marcos administration even thought of sending a guerrilla force to Sabah and went to the extent of training such a force in Corregidor, until a recruit ran to then Sen. Ninoy Aquino to expose the Jabidah massacre. The exposĆ© killed the plan to infiltrate Sabah. Subsequent administrations, wanting to maintain good relations with its neighbor, dropped the Sabah claim. That is what the Sultanate of Sulu is deploring: The Philippine government has abandoned its claim so it has to do something on its own. How will the standoff all end? The best-case scenario is that the crisis will attract international attention and world powers would be able to convince Malaysia to agree to take the case to the International Court of Justice or to the bargaining table. 
posted by Major D Swami (Retired) @ 10:32 AM  
1 Comments:
  • At 8:18 PM, Anonymous Anonymous said…

    The Malaysian government allows arms to flow to MILF and other Muslim riff raff in the south of the Philippines. What's makes you think Manila cares what happens to Malaysia?

     
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