Tomorrow, July 12, is, to borrow Franklin Delano Roosevelt's celebrated description of the sneak Pearl Harbor bombing by the Japanese in World War 2, "a day of infamy."

In contemporary reckoning, what could be more infamous really than the commemoration of the day the so-called United Nations-backed Permanent Court of Arbitration (PCA) at The Hague issued a ruling, which traditional US rah-rah boys in the Philippines immediately ventilated in the media, in public fora and in mass protest actions as a Philippine victory against China? At the risk of being overly redundant, we hasten to stress that certain factors come into play in this discussion in order that such perceived Philippine triumph must stand negated.

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