As I listened to the SONA last Monday, I have come to realize that there is only one glorious triumph of this administration: the president had acted a true Commander-in-Chief by defeating the Isis-inspired Maute group in Marawi.
It was a feat, no matter how long it had taken, considering that Isis is a global terrorist network.
The imagined situations that the Maute brothers could have dismembered our country, could have made Mindanao a haven for all terrorist groups, a place where women would never find equality in the home and in society, -- all possibilities had they won the war, all these made me feel very cold and desensitized.
Folks, war is war. There is no justification for it. It makes widows of women and orphans of children. It maims and kills soldiers. It makes other men who do not join the war feel emasculated in the face of the soldiers who are carrying guns and ammunitions.( Let us face it, the macho image is still in our society no matter how many articles we would come up to denigrate it. )
And so, if I were the speechwriter of the President, I would have focused on the triumph of the war against the Marawi siege and the rest a bit of ten percent each.
Peace of mind, safety of bodies, healthy emotions, nurturance of dreams and ambitions and many more are the results of a peaceful society.
Photo taken on October 17, 2017 shows a damaged mosque minaret (L) and buildings in Marawi on the southern island of Mindanao. / AFP PHOTO / TED ALJIBE
Thank you Ted. Wilhelmina
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