Comments on: Fragmentation, not peace.

By: taxj

taxj — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 14:08:00 +0000

A few points missed here. Not all Muslims are for Islam rule. Already FM’s Martial Law is better than Gloria’s regime. Less evil, I mean. Not that the rest were any better! Any successor will not bring relief. The fault is in the system.

By: retsy

retsy — Sun, 10 Aug 2008 16:47:44 +0000

It is so annoying!!!! the agreement between Arroyo administration & the MILF created so much chaos in Mindanao. Look at the scenario now, there is no Peace at all!!!!!! The war Sprung because of this “BJE”!!!!!
How could she conceptualized this stuff?????
The Philippines is an archipelago, a fragmented shape, there between the 3 biggest islands [Luzon, Visayaz & Mindanao. the big question marked is the fact that if this “BJE” will come towards its realization, then the philippine WILL LEAD ITS WAY TO separation particularly Mindanao!!!!!

Can they survive, if they will create an Islamic State????? How about the christians who are considered majority in Mindanao area, what will happen to our fellows?????

Our’s is a democratic country, thus I am in titled in my own opinion. My point of view pertaining to this scenario is an absolute fact that our President is aiming to declare a “State of Emergency or even worst to declare “Martial law”!!!!!!!
If we will look at it in different perspective, She can declare any of those as chief executive. Therefore, if the affected area in North- Cotabato will worsen their situation, then it will be an alarming point hence she might declare a “State of Emergency” or the worst one the “Martial Law”.
Your brillant, Madame President!!! It is certain that in your remaining term as president “, gumagapang na lahat ng galamay mo” just to stay in power……….

MALIWANAG, TAKTIKA ANG LAHAT NG ITO NG ARROYO ADMINISTRATION!!!!!!!

By: retsy

retsy — Sat, 09 Aug 2008 18:39:04 +0000

I do agree, Muslims are Filipinos. We belong to one country the Philippines. Then why should the Muslims wanted to have their very own Islamic State?????
Why is that the Arroyo government is stressing the idea in creating distinction towards the Filipino-Muslims???
What kind of scenario the president is creating, she added more chaos in Mindanao…We are going to dig a little deeper, The Muslims are not majority in Mindanao, in fact they are Minority groups only. Then, why should the Arroyo Government wanted to have this agreement, The Bangsamoro Juridical Entity [BJE], for what purpose this will serve??????
It will create more chaos as a whole upon seeing the total concept in different perspective!!!! Thus chaos sorrounded already some parts of Mindanao because of this, No justification at all among the christians living in Mindanao!!!!!!

By: cvj

cvj — Sat, 09 Aug 2008 16:52:19 +0000

Philman, i’m not here to give you what you ‘want’.

By: Bencard

Bencard — Sat, 09 Aug 2008 16:20:41 +0000

philman, are you saying this particular “views” of cvj is in google? which part of it, and under what tag? i want to see it for myself.

By: Philman

Philman — Sat, 09 Aug 2008 15:27:52 +0000

cvj,

If I want to know such views, I’d Google it myself.

By: cvj

cvj — Sat, 09 Aug 2008 07:54:22 +0000

It is naive to think that us ordinary citizens can participate in ‘real politik’ as the latter is practiced behind the scenes. The best the public can hope for is to make itself a big enough factor to the practitioners of such real politik. This happened twice before, during EDSA when Laxalt had to advice Marcos to ‘cut and cut cleanly’ and once again in 1992 when the US had to pull out its basis after the Senate’s rejection of the treaty.

By: cocoy

cocoy — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 22:16:59 +0000

The Republic need not negotiate with these rebels from a position of weakness.

j, by accepting the draft— this government is already in a position of weakness. the cat is out of the bag.

By: J

Fri, 08 Aug 2008 17:12:29 +0000

I agree, Philman. Although I still believe we should not totally ignore moral considerations. But in this case, there’s no moral ascendncy for the MILF because they’ve been rejected by the Musilm Filipinos and Mindanaoans a lot of times in many plebiscites. We should therefore use force to pursue lasting peace.

But I admit it’s easier said than done though. We might have better arms, soldiers and funding than the MILF, but we don’t have a compact chain of command.

Given the political will, though, I believe we can easily defeat the MILF. We almost did when they fled Abu Bakar in 2000 and Hashim Salamat fled to Malaysia. I just don’t know what happened afterwards and why Arroyo pursued negotiations with them again.

By: Philman

Philman — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 16:34:02 +0000

J, I think in the present global scenario, moral per)suasion will not work.

The extreme competition for earth’s limited resources plus the present multi-polarity (after the Cold War, rise of BRIC powers, etc), necessitates a re-thinking of RP’s approaches in its domestic and foreign policies, including the Muslim insurgency, i.e. go beyond the moral and legal arguments.

We must be prepared to use power, i.e. realpolitik. I read somewhere