Thoughts on a Friday the 13th

IS America sending, too, the Seventh Fleet and the international media?

If it is, then we had better brace ourselves for real trouble. The last time I remember the US making a lot of fuss about the Philippine presidential elections was in 1986 when America's biggest naval fleet for Asia Pacific suddenly dropped anchor at Manila Bay in time for the conduct of the snap elections in February that year. The military move was coupled by US mobilization of Western media, billeting them at the Manila Hotel, from where they were to cover the electoral process.