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President Ramos does not use the phrase “special relations.” Bu he say as much & more fulsomely when he speaks of a continuing community of strategic & “economic interests” as a “central fact of life” which transcends fluctuations in the political & psychological climate & which denotes in valuable constants in bilateral affairs, which either the US or the Philippines can either ill-afford to subordinate to transient considerations & ephemeral exigencies. Great word its sounds much like the import of conjugal vows – in sickness or in health, for richer or for poorer, until death. But it is this descriptive of actual fact or more the unfulfilled yearning of a disenchanted lover? The actual fact seems to be the United States can well afford to ignore us & past historical relations. The global development to which President Ramos alludes, both strategic & economic, precisely are the direction of making it easy for the United States to pretty much ignore the Philippines. The same geopolitical developments which had bolstered the position of the anti-US bases advocates have diminished the strategic value of the Philippines for the United States, & the opening of markets I Eastern Europe & the unification of South & Nor