The southern Philippines' uneasy truce

The lesson all governments should learn from this is, a jihadist truce is designed for one purpose, give them time to choose when best to strike you. "The Philippine military has been searching for him since his disappearance, as has the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF), a rebel group that has signed a truce with the government. "

In fact, the Philippine government has ceded part of their country to the Islamic jihadists. Once land is given to Muslims, it must forever remain Muslim land.

""The battle was a legitimate fight... We acted in self-defence. [The marines] were in a territory that belongs to us, a place where they should not have been.

"We have an agreement whereby they are supposed to tell us of mass troop movements. They did not do this."

Ponder that for awhile.