Critics fire broadsides at President

President Benigno Aquino 3rd will be remembered not for what he did in the first two years of his presidency when he could do no wrong, but for the actions he took in the face of crises and disasters.

It has been a difficult year for the President, as he himself admitted when Central Visayas was battered by the most powerful typhoon in Philippine history. After all, the crises, man-made and natural, that struck the country were no small ones. These include the Sabah incident when hundreds of followers of the late Sulu Sultan Jamalul Kiram 3rd occupied Lahad Datu town in Sabah, Malaysia, the shooting of a Chinese fisherman by personnel of the Philippine Navy, the 7.2-magnitude earthquake that hit the provinces of Cebu and Bohol, Super Typhoon Yolanda and the Zamboanga incident.