Rome, Italy 22 September 2013
President Aquino, according to the palace, is in Zambo to
take charge of the military operations as the Commander in Chief is a pure ‘papogi’
measure. As the CiC, he can follow the actions from where he should be: in his
office where he can aslo oversee the other urgent national issues. He went to
the scene of battles so he could be pictured as the wartrior president who leads
his men in battle while keeping mum on his part in the pork barrel issue.
The word from Malacañang was that Mr. Aquino had nothing
to say about the filing of plunder charges against three senators, several
congressmen, and at least two dozen other people supposedly involved in the
misuse of pork barrel funds because he had no access to newspapers — putting
that outstanding piece of idiocy among such other gems from Palace spokesmen as
that in late 2010 when Mr. Aquino, they said, could not be reached at the US
because he had left his cellphone at home.
The MNLF is taking the brunt of blame for sending its
forces into Zamboanga City so they could hoist their flag at city hall. MNLF
Chair Nur Misuari is being accused of trying to call attention to his
declaration of independence last August, thereby triggering an armed response
from the military and the police — apparently with the sanction of the local
and national governments, neither of which, we can gauge from their respective
statements, could countenance the MNLF presence.
Mr. Aquino’s statements and his administration’s relegating the
MNLF to the status of spectator rather than participant in his exclusionary
approach to peace in Mindanao was bound to provoke MNLF resentment. Only an
idiot with no understanding of either the politics of the region or of the
human heart would have thought otherwise. (http://bulatlat.com/main/2013/09/22/clueless-in-zamboanga/#sthash.1JlWEk3x.dpuf)
The president must prove, instead, the he is what the
voters who elected him hoped him to be: the statesman whom the nation could rely
in important national situations. At the moment, he is proving that he is
nothing but a blundering politician trying hard to beautify himself to the eyes
of the voters. Despite his claims of ‘successes’ in economic field, he still
yet to show to the people that he is really doing something to cure the ills of
the nation, the chronic poverty and social insecurity that scourge the
Filipinos.
The mire our president is in appears as if it were the
MNLF’s Misuari fault. The mess is in fact his own doing as made clear by ex
president F. V. Ramos’ statyement. We, perhaps do not have a statesman (not mentioning
a politician) in the palace. Just a child president making believe he is a general.
His thin veneer of an honest, trustworthy guy is quickly
peeling off as his ‘matuwid na daan’ rethoric melts out and the people are
loosing their patient on him.
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