FIRST, let us state that we feel the pain of seeing our country remain overly dependent on our former colonizer the United States of America, until now, 70 years after we regained our independence.

We feel the anger of the letter- and comment-writers we have published today on P6. But we do also see the logic of those who have written in praise of the Enhanced Defense Cooperation Agreement (EDCA) and the Supreme Court’s decision to declare it constitutional and okay to implement -- without need of the Senate’s concurrence -- because it is only an executive agreement.

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