Teresita, you also don’t get to be a first world nation by having your workforce run around the streets committing arson, burning US flags while chanting “Death to America!” and hacking the heads off schoolgirls, either.

Mindanao is mostly Muslim, and dirt poor? Good. That means they can’t afford to spend money on killing decent Western people. In any case, doesn’t Islam include provisions about charity, and why aren’t their “brothers in Islam” in the ME helping them if that’s the case? And why the heck should the West in general, and America specifically, help people who hate us?