Nation in pain and anguish awaits words of comfort

TWO days after the annihilation by the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) of a company of policemen under the Special Action Force (SAF), which served warrants of arrest for known international terrorists in Maguindanao Province, the nation awaits with bated breath for a statement from the President.

In a very strange and troubling development, President Benigno S. Aquino 3rd, who is usually vocal about the things that bother him, has remained silent even as the families of the slain policemen await words of comfort from the country’s highest political leader.