As war threatens, we worry about Grace Poe becoming President

THE WORLD is now a much more dangerous place, after the downing of a Russian bomber-plane by two Turkish F16s in disputed airspace near the Turkish-Syrian border this week. But we are so focused  on our narrow domestic cares related to the holding of our 2016 presidential elections that we seem to have no energy left for anything else.

Indeed, these cares are not unrelated to the rule of law and the issue of peace, but we need a broader perspective, in light of fast-breaking global developments.