LIKE a slow learner in school, the Aquino administration always has to be rudely awakened before it can gather its wits. It’s painful to say, but the tragedy of Mamasapano was a fated and necessary lesson for President Aquino to see the recklessness and grandiosity of his peace plan for the Philippine South. Absent this tragedy, we would not have seen the cliff to which he was leading the republic.
It was the same with Yolanda. Without the massive devastation and misery inflicted by the super typhoon Haiyan/Yolanda, the nation would not have seen and realized how inept, how uncaring, and how calamitous is this government ruling over us. Despite the massive outpouring of international assistance, Aquino still could not get the job done.
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