The only real winner coming out of the Philippine and Malaysian
governments’ Bangsamoro Basic Law (BBL) scam is the terrorist Moro
Islamic Liberation Front (MILF). It is pure genius. The MILF has locked
itself in a ceasefire deal with the government of Philippine President
Benigno Simeon ‘BS’ Aquino III effectively hog-tying the Armed Forces of
the Philippines. One of the bigger tragic outcomes of this monumental
hoodwinking of the Filipino people is the savage massacre of 44 officers
of the Philippine police’s Special Action Force by the MILF as the AFP
sat on their hands. Most disturbing of all, it is becoming increasingly
evident that the MILF will likely get away with this hideous atrocity
laughing all the way to the bank.
Indeed, the MILF has so completely hacked into the brain stems of the
people who run the Philippine government. It has all but taken over the
heads of chief “peace” negotiators Teresita Quintos-Deles and Miriam
Coronel-Ferrer who now negotiate on their behalf rather than on behalf
of the interests of the Filipino people. And now the MILF have also
effectively turned the Philippine military into their own mercenaries!
Our boys: Now fighting the enemy’s enemy!
“All-out war” is what AFP chief of staff Gen. Gregorio Pio Catapang Jr now calls it. All out war has been ordered by Catapang against the Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Fighters (BIFF) and the Abu Sayyaf, both of which are enemies of the MILF (or so the MILF
would have us believe). So now the Philippines is fighting the MILF’s
war as well. And for what? So that the “friendship” between President BS
Aquino and his terrorist buddies will be saved?
This crisis has proven just how outclassed President BS Aquino’s
government is when it comes to dealing with entities that possess vast
experience playing chess in the international leagues. First it
had allowed China to walk all over it. Now it had put out a welcome mat
to Islamic terrorists into its strategic planning core.
The MILF are no juniors when it comes to making fools of entire
governments. Former Secretary Rafael Alunan now describes the whole deal
with the MILF as a “road straight to hell”.
Alunan recounts a 1995 meeting with his intelligence counterparts in
Pakistan with whom he exchanged notes about what they knew about the
MILF…
The MILF would select recruits from the Philippines, overseas Filipino workers in the Middle East, and religious scholars in Saudi Arabia or Egypt, and send them to Islamabad for further religious studies; then to a madrassah in Peshawar for military training; then across the Khyber Pass into Afghanistan for combat duty; then either smuggle them back in through the back door or the front door whenever feasible. Backdoor meant Sabah, Malaysia.
Alunan’s conclusion is pretty straightforward. You can’t teach an old dog new tricks…
The deceitful and amorphous MILF that proved untrustworthy during FVR’s term remains so to this day. And instead of mounting punitive strikes against the MILF-BIFF Salamat faction (versus the Murad faction that may or may not be sincere) in Mamasapano, the government shielded them, and its bumblers are now fumbling to cover up the monumental act of betrayal that resulted in unnecessarily high casualties!
Philippine president Benigno Simeon ‘BS’ Aquino III and his Iskul Bukol
administration has just only a little bit more than a year to rule the
Philippines, and his apologists insist that, given that little bit of
time left, Filipinos should allow this government to just work its way
through. But with an “all out war” now being waged, a lot more damage
can be done in that short period of time. The clear and present danger
here is that President BS Aquino has graduated from being a quaintly
hilarious gaffe bucket to a monstrous rogue head of state who could
plunge the Philippines, and possibly the entire region, into a
nightmarish entanglement with a major cell of a global terrorist
organisation.
Already, the Armed Forces of the Philippines, a force of more than
200,000 armed personnel with access to 40 million citizens fit for
service if called to serve, is suffering a critical breakdown in command
structure. It is widely-believed that the Philippine police had kept
the AFP out of the loop in its efforts to hunt down its FBI’s Most
Wanted targets precisely because of this, specifically because the AFP
could not be trusted to keep the MILF (with whom, under BS Aquino’s BBL
fantasy, they have become comfy with) out of the same loop.
Normal people would call that a complete breakdown in an entire
nation’s ability to operate as a modern country. Not Filipinos. It’s
simply business as usual. President BS Aquino has so ingrained an
ethic of mediocrity in Filipinos that his apologists have all but
converged into a standard script — (1) that Aquino should continue to be
supported because he is “not a bad man” and (2) that aspects of the
situation are pretty peachy if we ignore all the bad stuff. That’s Tardic Reasoning 101!
How long will Filipinos tolerate bullshittery that passes off as
government national policy? That’s up to their voters, of course — which
makes real “hope” for a better Philippines as big a delusional fantasy as “peace” in Mindanao under the BBL.
[Photo courtesy Philippine Star.]
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