The Philippines Breaks Rule #1....Never Sit Down and Negotiate With Islamic Terrorists

You'd think that the government of the Philippines would have enough world examples of why NOT to sit down to peace talks with a group of radical islamic terrorists but apparently, the Philippines leaders think they can pull a goat out of their hat. From the article at Breitbart:

The Philippine government and the Muslim secessionist rebels announced Wednesday that they will resume formal peace negotiations Dec. 8-9 in Malaysia.
"The formation of the International Contact Group finally clears the way for the formal resumption of the peace talks, and the panels agreed to resume the conduct of the peace negotiations," government panel chair Rafael Seguis and Moro Islamic Liberation Front chairman Mohagher Iqbal said in a joint statement.

With the hard lesson that Pakistan just learned over the last two years....where they submitted to peace negotiations with the Taliban and paid the dear price for those negotiations with evil, it's hard to believe that another government in the region would make the same mistake. Perhaps the Philippine government needs to review what has happened over the ages whenever Israel bowed to pressure and sat down to try and talk with the likes of the PA and Hamas.

So let me give the Philippine government a preview of what is going to go down in these peace talks:

1. The Philippine government will have to give the MILF (Moro Islamic Liberation Front) hundreds of millions of dollars in "aid" to the poor muslim sections of the country


2. The Philippine government will have to agree not to have any military forces in the muslim areas of the south


3. The Philippine government will have to issue a statement that they have oppressed the MILF


4. The Philippine government will have to dismantle their defense forces within 100 miles of the MILF front


5. The MILF will promise not to kill and maim civilians and Philippine troops ...unless they deem it necessary

I'll take any wager from ANYONE on the success of these negotiations - I've said it here a thousand times....you cannot negotiate with islamists. Why not? Because, as islamists, they are sure they are 100% in the right, it is written in their "book." They are charged with conquest of infidels and those that don't agree with them. So, I guess the world needs another lesson in why not to sit down with terrorists. Hopefully, this won't cost the Philippine government hundreds of dead troops and hundreds of dead civilians but I wouldn't bet on it.

I figure that during these talks with the MILF, the government will be referred to as the "GILF" ....the Government I'd Like (to) Fuck (over).

Philippine gov't, Muslim rebels to resume talks next
week+

MANILA, Dec. 2 (AP) - (Kyodo)—The Philippine government and the Muslim
secessionist rebels announced Wednesday that they will resume formal peace
negotiations Dec. 8-9 in Malaysia.
"The formation of the International
Contact Group finally clears the way for the formal resumption of the peace
talks, and the panels agreed to resume the conduct of the peace
negotiations,"
government panel chair Rafael Seguis and Moro Islamic
Liberation Front chairman
Mohagher Iqbal said in a joint statement.
The
ICG, composed of members
mutually agreed upon by the government and the
MILF, was established Sept. 15 in
Kuala Lumpur to break the deadlock in the
11-year on-and-off talks between the
government and the MILF, the country's
largest Muslim secessionist group with
about 12,000 members.
The joint
statement said the ICG is "initially
composed" of representatives from
Japan, Britain and Turkey as member-countries,
and the San Francisco-based
Asia Foundation, the Geneva-based Center for
Humanitarian Dialogue, the
London-based charity Conciliation Resources, and
Muhammadiyah, Indonesia's
largest Islamic organization, as international
nongovernmental organization
members.
Malaysia will facilitate the talks in
Kuala Lumpur that are
hoped to usher in peace and prosperity in the
Muslim-dominated areas of the
restive southern Philippine island of Mindanao.
Philippine President Gloria
Macapagal-Arroyo had earlier described the ICG
as a group that "can give
advice on how to go about bringing about an agreement
that will be
acceptable to all."
The Philippine government wants to include
Indonesia, Spain and Saudi Arabia in the ICG but the idea has been rejected
by
the MILF.
Peace talks between the government and the MILF have been
stalled
since August last year.
Since then renegade MILF commanders and
their
supporters have staged attacks in central Mindanao, killing about a
hundred
people and displacing thousands.