[Timber Rattler]

But now that Red China is moving in and the Philippines' economy is in shambles, they want us back.

Too bad.

[US Navy Vet]

After what Corazon Aquino and the F*CKED UP Philippine “Senate” did to the US Navy in the early 1990s I SAY “Screw You”!

[colorado tanker]

Sometimes, people should be careful what they ask for.

Sorry, Philippines, we don't have any Navy to send you anymore. Our Dear Leader threw it away.

[MrEdd]

Their economy is better than some US states.
And dropping the bases for fifteen years saved us money at the time.

I would support a return because we were never that resented, and their remains a whole lot of intermarriage between Americans and Pilipinos.

And then there are still some of the men Harry Truman betrayed there.

[ßuddaßudd]

How much are they willing to pay for our services this time?

[Old Teufel Hunden]

The one thing I remember about reading in the Stars and Stripes back when we closed Subic down was how they were angry about us taking our floating dry docks to Sasebo (I believe). For those that were there, if you recall there were those big floating drydocks. How many billions of dollars did the American taxpayers pay for those and they were upset we weren’t leaving them when we pulled out? That was hutzpah!

[dfwgator]

"Son, you're on your own."

[spel_grammer_an_punct_polise]

One should always be careful that for which one wishes. The communist element in the Philippines wanted the USA out of Subic Bay, period. Tough cookies! Buzz off! You reap what you sow! ;-)

[TYVets]

They wanted us out, so we left.

Now they are crying wolf

[Former Proud Canadian]

""We thought it was a stab in the back by China, taking advantage of our loss of the security umbrella provided by the United States," Rafael Alunan, a former interior secretary, told a group of visiting journalists on Monday."

Well what in blazes did you think was going to happen? What do you think a "security umbrella" is?

[AppyPappy]

Screw ‘em. I say we barter for Cam Ranh Bay

[KC_Conspirator]

"We thought it was a stab in the back by China, taking advantage of our loss of the security umbrella provided by the United States," Rafael Alunan, a former interior secretary, told a group of visiting journalists on Monday.

Well there liberal moron, what did you expect from communists? Honesty?

[ifinnegan]

Why too bad?

Are you against going back?

[Billthedrill]

Oh, no. My, no. I was there in the 70's and 80's and heard every insult and calumny possible in the papers covering the Filipino Senate debates. Was very disappointed in some politicians I though were our friends.

We had real Filipino friends, many of whom knew what would happen when the fleet left. Their Manila bosses told them they'd service the Chinese commercial fleets with the gear we left them. The Chinese wouldn't pay them what the U.S. did, and why should they, with Chinese shipworkers making a couple bucks a day tops? End of story.

Clark's pretty much done for, but we had nothing to do with it, Pinatubo did. The infrastructure elsewhere constructed over decades has been systematically looted right down to the copper wires. There just isn't all that much to come back to.

It was, as might be expected, a lot of politicians in Manila with red t-shirts and loud mouths and radical chic that ended the relationship. As usual, they let other people pay the price of their vainglory and vanity. They're still around. Let them police their own damn region.

[Wuli]

If the Philippines had had some real visionary, and yet strong leader, like South Korea had sometimes, the occasion of the U.S. departure would have been grasped as an opportunity for industrialization, like in ship building; with Subic one of the largest deep water ports in Asia, and with the tons of available skilled ship maintenance and repair labor after years of keeping-up the U.S. 7th fleet at its Subic facilities.

But no; Philippine politicians and business leaders mismanaged Subic’s potential and as a result the role of shipbuilding in the Philippines (which IS growing) is now led by Hanjin of Korea and others from Japan. Shipbuilding in the Philippines is now ahead of Europe, but its leaders are foreign based.

[Hot Tabasco]

I still say Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 was either accidentally or purposely shot down by Chinese fighter jets........

[Hot Tabasco]

Too bad.

Never thought I'd hear support for the communist Chinese on this website......

There has been a long standing dispute in the South China Sea over the Spratley Islands between China and the independent nations of Brunei, Taiwan, Malaysia, the Philipines and Vietnam.

China wants total control over that area due to the vast oil reserves and abundant food sources which would not only feed their people but make them totally self sufficient in oil production..........

You may not like the Philippines for whatever personal reason but there's a much larger picture involved and only the U.S. Navy can deter the increasing aggression of the Chinese Coast Guard in that area of the world.......

[Randy Larsen]

had a great time in olongapo back in the mid 70’s but when they kicked us out I knew they were making a huge mistake.

We no longer need Subic Bay or any presence in the Phillipines so screw them.