THEY have returned!

IN 1991, 12 patriots of the Philippine Senate, against the wishes of then President Cory Aquino, booted out the US bases in the Philippines. The 1987 Constitution, which Cory herself sponsored, specifically prohibits foreign military bases in the country. The Military Bases Agreement (MBA) signed in 1947 allowed the US to establish air and naval facilities for 99 years but was amended several times, cutting down the 99 years to the remaining 25 beginning in 1966. With Subic and Clark, the two biggest US military bases outside the continental US, America projected its might, extending its hegemony in the Far East.

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