So true what you say about the Philippines, and every nation on Earth actually.  A nation becoming an ally due to love, aloha, and do the "right" thing is a fiction.  Nations ally for self preservation, greed, and/or opportunity.  Aloha is just the caboose bringing up the rear of diplomacy.  While an obese Iraqi female MD might qualify as a mass destructor, you're correct that Clinton should have known what kind of Iraqi whether haole, Sunni, Kurd, Katonk, or Babooze.  The sting from the filipino-lady-of-peace is more worse than stings from the portagee-man-of-war.  Of course US guys cannot count on Philippines as an Ally because of indian giving Clark AFB.