Thirty years of warfare, then what? As Americans wonder how long the U.S. will be in Iraq, Vanguard Producer Tracey Chang travels across the island of Mindanao in the southern Philippines, where 30 years of warfare between the U.S–backed Philippine Army and various Islamic insurgent, terrorist, and criminal groups have yielded a plan for peace that is neither surge nor withdrawal: Giving the largest and hardest-to-defeat insurgent group some of what it’s demanding, while trying to eliminate the nastiest of the smaller terrorist and criminal groups.
