“Partners for Peace”, the be-all of deal making, will inevitably lead us to appeasement of evil and then to massive violense in self defense when the evildoers do the evil they will do. Amazingly, Spenglers article is almost a duplicate of the same things said about the German corruption after Hitler came to power and the Shibatsu corruption in pre-Pearl Harbor Japan. The opposition is corrupt, no doubt, but our delusion of “partners” will lead us to the horrors of the past if we do not change the regime. Wretchard, your analogy of the support for Enrile is “write-on”; I suspect the people in the streets are well aware of Spengler’s point of the corrupt power struggle, and are motivated by their hatred of the regime and love of freedom, not naive loyalty to the sleazoids. Sadly, Obi is not with them, but with his “partners”, the evil-doers.