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Anytime the Philippines is in the news now there is a constant stream of people stopping by my desk to talk about it.
Several people have said that they have seen something on the news about the coup. We dont understand the whole situation and generally dont have a great interest here.
It seemed to me while I was there that these anti-Arroyo people sound a lot like the anti-Bush people here and I tuned them out after asking more than a few people about their thoughts on the subject.
There were some that were sympathetic to the ouster movement but most had little interest or thought that these people had little influence.
The most disturbing thoughts expressed was by a man lamenting the "good ol' days of Marcos".
He was serious too. At that point I just accepted the fact that I dont understand their politics and stuck to wandering around (drunk) in wild fascination there.
Not that I dont care but it's just not my fight and I dont understand the history.
Some of the photos from Quezon city were interesting to see in the net news but only because that setting looks so familiar.
Hopefully things iron out there. That's unlikely though.
Thanks for the links.
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