CDZ The anniversary of us helping Ferdinand Marcos flee the Philippines

Toronado3800

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Marcos flees the Philippines - Feb 25, 1986 - HISTORY.com

Ferdinand Marcos - Wikipedia

These daily reminders are giving me plenty of light reading to do. I remember this happening and wondering why we helped him escape.

Even though I might have let him get hung upside down from a light at a gas station now I think we helped Marcos escape as a pragmatic repayment of a debt in the fight against Communism. There is some reason to the idea we couldn't let someone with that much cold war knowledge fall into the people's hands I suppose.

Is our helping Marcos out generally thought of as a necessary debt paid by Reagan to a dictator we propped up during the cold war?
 

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