Administration’s amateurish assessment of ISIS threat

THERE is no seriousness in the way the Aquino Administration is addressing the threat to our country and people posed by Daesh. This is the name mainstream Arab Muslims use to refer to the jihadists and Islamic extremists who call themselves the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS). The BS Aquino crowd’s cavalier approach to the Daesh threat is profoundly unsettling and dangerous because it is merely wishful and not at all realistic.

The nation would have more confidence in the Administration’s stand that there is no credible threat from the ISIS forces, despite recent armed clashes in Mindanao involving Daesh-sounding polemics, if the official conducting the media briefing were a high-level and responsible official of the government’s security services agencies--and not just BS Aquino’s chief communications man.