"We will fight when called to fight". These are the only words
we want to hear coming out of the mouths of our fighting men and women. But
that’s not the way Armed Forces of the Philippines Chief of Staff General
Gregorio Pio Catapang Jr sees it, however. In an interview with “social news
network”Rappler.com, Catapang was quoted as saying the following
words:
“It’s easy to call for war but I hope they’re the first ones
willing to be called to active duty. I hope they’re the first ones to volunteer
to be on the front lines. I don’t think they even know what kind of war they’re
talking about.”
Never before have such chickenshit words come out of the
mouth of a soldier.
Soldiers are not paid to philosophize about war and peace.
They are paid and conditioned to kill the enemy when given
orders to do battle. The armed forces serve at the command of civilian
authorities. That’s the deal, as I recall. Let that debate be had amongst
civilian circles where it all begins. In the mean time, the armed services’ job
is to maintain a sufficient level of preparedness to fight if and when the
order comes.
In most normal societies, it is usually the
military that is pumped up for war and the civilian government serving as the
control valve for all that testosterone. Not in the Philippines. Here, it is
the other way around. Filipinos are fuming over the impunity of an arrogant
Islamic terrorist group that had successfully hoodwinked an entire national
government into negotiating with them as equals. War is
a real solution now that 44 police officers lie dead after being
savagely massacred by these terrorists thanks to the command paralysis that
kept the Army’s hands tied seeing that the Moro Islamic Liberation Front were
involved. As what Sen. Cayetano said, "Inutusan mong makipagsuntukan, pero
itinali mo ang mga kamay nila".
Yet, now, we are hearing the supreme military commander of
the Philippines’ armed forces telling us…
Sure, let’s go to war. You go first.
To begin with, who is necessarily calling for war to begin
with? The key civilian debate here is whether to continue with the fantasy of
“peace” in Mindanao that is President BS Aquino’s pet project, the Bangsamoro
Basic Law (BBL). It is an idiotic logical leap concluding that war will break
out if the BBL is junked. Indeed, whether or not war breaks out is really up to
the enemy party here, those who illegally wield arms and
who stand accused of butchering 44 Philippine police officers.
War is but an option for Filipinos. But it
is an entire way of life for the enemy: Mindanao’s Islamic
terrorists. So back to the fundamental question:
Who is being the war freak here?
The moronism of people like General Catapang and a whole
bunch of Senators doing all the talking and philosophizing about war here can
be traced to one thing: the absence of no less than the President in this
“debate”.
President BS Aquino has remained tight-lipped about the
truth and just as tight lipped about a roadmap out of this mess. Both are
things one would normally expect a president to be a singular authority
on.
Not in the Philippines.
In the Philippines and only in the Philippines,
soldiers pontificate about war and peace, state negotiators defend enemy
ideology, and Presidents schmooze with terrorist chieftains. Filipinos have
come to see these insults to modern human civilization
as normal parts of their way of life.
How do we extricate the Filipino from the perversion of
civilization that the Philippines has become?
For starters, people like General Catapang should shut
the hell up.
This is how real warriors assure non-combatants:
"'Pag nagka-bakbakan, stidi lang kayo dyan. Kami ang
bahala."
Who put those stars on this guy anyway? He should be sent
back to basic training.
-GetRealPhilippines
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