FRANCISCO S. TATAD
JUST when people expected President Rodrigo Duterte to shift the focus of his war on drugs from killing unshod suspects who were reportedly “resisting arrest,” to going after the big drug producers, manufacturers, financiers and mega distributors who have not at all been touched, he now calls on the Armed Forces of the Philippines to join the “war” that has made the killing of “nobodies” the staple of our daily lives. How the AFP will respond to this is the first real challenge to the new Chief of Staff, Lt. Gen. Eduardo Ano, who assumed his office on Wednesday, presumably with an unclouded view of the distinction between the work of the military and that of the police.