woah, this is news to me. i thought we learned to stay out of Vietnam in the early 70s?

12/18/2005 9:08:16 PM

Haha. I think its primarily in the Phillippines, right?

12/18/2005 9:27:53 PM

Phillipines, probably Indonesia as well.

12/18/2005 9:38:02 PM

Phillipines and Indonesia.

Actually, a fair number of servicemen have been killed in the Philippines in the War on Terror, but you never hear about them.

12/18/2005 9:57:38 PM

well this is news to most of the US...or not. i feel stupid now.

well, i know there are bases still in the phillipines.

12/18/2005 10:06:17 PM

it was also news to me

but i would have been fine if they hadnt posponed FAMILY GUY

fucking communists

12/18/2005 10:17:04 PM

Yeah it is news to most people that we are engaged in anything over there. A friend of mine went to Jakarta with an agency in the intelligence community shortly after the bombing of the marriott a few years back. Doesn't take a genius to figure out what he was doing there.

12/19/2005 12:39:27 AM

there are a SHITLOAD of Muslims in SE Asia, kiddo.

12/19/2005 12:49:42 AM

DI DI MAO

12/19/2005 1:04:02 AM

SE Asia has actually been a major battlefield for the "War on Terror" almost immediately after Afghanistan. Between all those bombings in Bali and Muslim uprisings in the Philippines, Thailand, and Indonesia, the al-Qaeda is pretty active down there.

Not to say that all the Muslim uprisings are al-Qaeda inspired (they're primarily economic in nature), but they tend to draw the al-Qaeda crew down there.

[Edited on December 19, 2005 at 3:11 AM. Reason : .]

12/19/2005 3:10:53 AM