Overreaction
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| Ninez Cacho-Olivares |
Noynoy Aquino should realize that he shouldn’t have called on the foreign governments that issued their warnings of a possible terrorist activity to withdraw or lift them, because they won’t do it, mainly due to the fact that the advisories issued were meant for their citizens’ safety and awareness — and not directed at the Filipino people.
For them to withdraw their travel advisories would be to neglect their governmental duties to their citizens living in places where they, on their stated intelligence basis, say danger lurks and for their citizens to take care.
Truth is, it was an overreaction of Noynoy to these advisories, and he did make things worse, by claiming that the intelligence reports they had were without basis, and that as allies, they should have shared their intelligence report with the Philippines.
Yet he also says that informally, he was told that there are assassination plots against two foreign envoys and several security officials, then adds that such information given him is in conflict with the warnings of terrorist activity that these foreign governments have issued..... MORE
Source: The Daily Tribune
URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/commentary/20101108com2.html
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