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“You cannot negotiate with people who say what’s mine is mine and what’s yours is negotiable.” –  JFK July 25, 1961 during the Berlin Crisis  Why don’t I throw this into the mix, as a warning perhaps? “Diplomats are useful only in fair weather. As soon as it rains they drown in every drop.” – Charles de Gaulle 

Why do we need a Native American president? I do not see any working solution coming from either party. Regardless who wins in this presidential election, the country would even be more divided.  There is huge rift between the left and the right; between the Democrats and the GOP.   

The United States of America is no longer united in the true and effective sense of the word. Our leaders themselves are saying political divisiveness has reached a tipping point. We should postpone this election.

 

Feb. 20, 2016 – According to page 251 of the same book “In Our Image” by Stanley Karnow, in 1927 Quezon confided to Henry L. Stimson, the former Secretary of War that he prefer autonomy, dominion status over independence as an implied admission that Filipinos were not and in fact to this day not ready for self rule.

Stimson frankly told Quezon and Osmena that he opposed giving independence to the Philippines because of the “Malays’ tendencies to backslide” would destroy the archipelago.  

Stimson also believed only the Americans could check the undemocratic oligarchy that doesn’t really care about the farmers, the majority of the people of the Philippines. Free institutions of democratic countries could only be promoted by Americans, as far as Stimson was concerned.

  However, I do not agree with Henry Stimson that only the U.S. could effectively deal with the “undemocratic oligarchy” still in power to this day.