The roadside-bombing of an advance party of the presidential security of President Duterte raises the level of threat to the safety of the President. It should be met with the greatest seriousness and the most appropriate response.

It will not do to nonchalantly shrug it off with populist braggadocio, or to threaten the suspect Muslim rebel group with war (as the President has casually done).

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