FRANCISCO S. TATAD
FRANCISCO S. TATAD

As President Duterte’s international crisis sizzles, a friend cautioned me, in Jean Paul Sartre’s words, “Go gently, mortal, be discreet.” He said he has already heard my name mentioned thrice in the President’s speeches, and he doesn’t want to see me “Dutertecized”—whatever that means. I was especially touched by this concern, but I would like to believe that in everything that I have said and done as a writer, I have been as honest, as fair and as just as possible to all concerned.

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