US forces its will on a "friend"

I can't see the threat, I can see hey we think this guys innocent. Lets have a fair appeal. I really can not see the logic that US would back a man that is thought to be totally guilty. Its not in their political interest and the soldiers just another grunt. I have a gut feeling this is all to do with justice and fair trial. 

What I do see is the fact that the soldier has been taken out of a Filipino jail whilst on appeal.

Now lets take away the American hatred and look at whats happening. Appeals are made normally after new evidence has been found. Lets say or assume that the US soldiers has been wrongly imprisoned and the appeal will prove his innocence? Would we want him to sit in a rat infested jail because he has been wrongly accused?

There has been no mention that after the appeal is turned down that the US will not hand over the soldier to serve the full sentence.

The problem is that the US does not respect the Law of the Philippines as the system has been proved corrupt.

I think before all the shouting its best to await the appeal and see where things go from there.

I certainly would not want to throw the first stone. 

My logic assumption is US has found the need to remind the Philippine government that it should be wary of future military aid and funding if the soldier is not given a chance to prove his innocent if that if the case.

Unfortunately the American hate mongers are interfering with political diplomacy hopefully its not effecting the life of a man that may be innocent of any crime.

correct, however after the appeal hearing and a guilty verdict then US has to abide by the sentence being carried out on Philippine soil.

Food for thought "what if the guy turns out to be completely innocent" and that USA did not have a temporary agreement to hold him within the embassy till the appeal?

I just hope that fair justice will be handed out by the supreme court what ever the verdict. 

Should be labeled "opinion".

"North Korea Nuclear Crisis
February 1993 - June 1994

The nuclear challenge from North Korea in 1993 and 1994 focused on halting of the existing North Korean nuclear program, which by June 1994 was poised to leap forward in its production of weapons-grade plutonium.

In late 1991 North and South Korea signed an Agreement on Reconciliation, Non-aggression, Exchanges and Cooperation and the Joint Declaration on the Denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula. The Joint Declaration called for a bilateral nuclear inspection regime to verify the denuclearization of the peninsula and in 1991 George Bush pulled American tactical nuclear weapons off the Korean Peninsula. The Declaration, which came into force on 19 February 1992, states that the two sides "shall not test, manufacture, produce, receive, possess, store, deployor use nuclear weapons," and that they "shall not possess nuclear reprocessing and uranium enrichment facilities." When North Korean Deputy Prime Minister Kim Tal-Hyon visited South Korea for economic talks in July 1992, President Roh Tae Woo announced that full North-South Economic Cooperation would not be possible without resolution of the North Korean nuclear issue. There was little progress toward the establishment of an inspection regime, and dialogue between the South and North stalled in the fall of 1992.

Pyongyang finally signed the accord with the IAEA in 1992. The North's agreement to accept The North's agreement to accept IAEA safeguards initiated a series of IAEA inspections of North Korea's nuclear facilities. This promising development was halted by the North's refusal to allow special inspections of two unreported facilities suspected of holding nuclear waste. Ignoring the South-North Joint Declaration of the Denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula, North Korea refused IAEA inspections and operated nuclear reprocessing facilities, making the world suspicious of its nuclear intentions.

On February 10, 1993, North Korea refused to permit the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) to conduct special inspections, as permitted under the terms of the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT), of two undeclared nuclear-related sites to clarify discrepancies related to North Korea's nuclear program, and on March 12, 1993, North Korea announced its intention to withdraw from the NPT effective on June 12, 1993, due to the insistence of the IAEA on exercising inspection rights under the NPT.

On April 1, 1993, the IAEA declared North Korea to be in noncompliance with the NPT; on April 2, 1993, the IAEA voted to refer North Korean violations of the Treaty to the United Nations Security Council; and on April 7, 1993, the IAEA issued a formal censure on North Korea for its noncompliance with the NPT, the first censure in the history of the IAEA. On May 11, 1993, the United Nations Security Council passed a resolution asking North Korea to allow IAEA inspections under the NPT, and on May 12, 1993, North Korea rejected the request of the United Nations Security Council and subsequently impeded or refused access to any of its sites by IAEA inspectors."

"The problem is that the US does not respect the Law of the Philippines as the system has been proved corrupt."

Korea is a completely different ball game than the politics and political diplomatic problems of US and the Republic of the Philippines.

Yes, BF, that post was in response to the accusation that we always "dictate", as in Korea, and there is no comparison with the Philippines.