President Obama’s visits to Tanzania (population: 46 million) and Senegal (13 million people) last week, together with President Aquino’s transiting to his term’s second half is a sad reminder of the messed-up, pathetic state of our foreign relations.

Despite the yoking of our foreign policy to that of the US, Obama has ignored the Philippines as a nation he has to visit to send his country’s clear message of support.

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