JAIME J. YAMBAO
A MORE dreadful secret weapon seems to have been unleased from Syria, more dreadful than any of the chemical weapons it has been known to possess. It has wafted through the air, crossing the borders in the Middle East, crossing the Mediterranean, crossing the borders in Europe, crossing the Atlantic, and crossing the eastern and mid-eastern expanse of the United States of America. It has moved quietly, invisible, odorless and impalpable. It has made ruins not of physical structures but, more importantly, of the minds and hearts of people. Bearing the name of populism, it has emptied minds and hearts of reason and human compassion.