No wonder the Aquino administration failed to alert sufficiently and early enough Tacloban and other Leyte-Samar areas that Super Typhoon Yolanda would create a horrific tsunami-like storm surge that would drown thousands of Filipinos in minutes.

No wonder that its response to the disaster was so feeble that even four days after Yolanda struck—and this is according to he official website of the Armed Forces of the Philippines—only 1,000 troops from its 525th Engineering Battalion and 1st Special Forces Battalion were in Tacloban to collect the corpses, rescue those buried in collapsed houses, provide relief goods, and maintain order.

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