Why Insurgency in the Philippines persists?

The communist insurgency is already more than thirty years old in the Philippines. It has outlived even most communist governments except for the few remaining ones, such as those existing in North Korea, China, and Cuba. The government, especially the military, blame it on the many leftist organizations, the so called leftists blame it on the government, while the rest simply do not care unless it affects them directly. So why indeed does insurgency in the Philippine persists?

The so called "butcher", retired General now Congressman Palparan, is always quick to point to the leftists as the reason for the unending insurgency. Maybe it would help Mr. Palparan to realize that the biggest reason, and thus the biggest enemy, are actually his new colleagues and fellow members of congress, the countless other corrupt politicians who directly support the insurgents in many variety of ways, and the greedy businessmen who care for nothing but their bottomlines. Even if the so called leftists would right now all go up the mountains, they will certainly not last a week without financial and other logistical support from anybody especially our corrupt politicians and greedy businessmen. Congressmen, except for the few who come from insurgency free districts, regularly provide financial and logistical support to insurgents to buy security, and by logistics I mean military hardware, while the local politicians regularly allot a portion of their intelligence funds to support the insurgents which should have better use if given instead to support the military. Businessmen for their part simply give so they will be left unmolested by the insurgents. Regardless of any justification that they will try to put forward, there is just no justification for their support to the insurgents, ever. They simply do not have the fortitude to stand up against the insurgents. And boy were they so proud of this connection! The problem is compounded by the growing apathy of the people. People simply do not bother anymore how many of our heroic soldiers die everyday fighting to preserve and defend our freedoms. I firmly believe that the reason why many so called abusive soldiers behave as they do is the fact that they really felt unappreciated. Unless each one of us should start getting positively involved, it saddens me to think that resolution to this long standing problem is still a long, long way off.