Noynoy ‘Amboy’ Aquino FRONTLINE Ninez Cacho-Olivares 08/14/2011

Noynoy ‘Amboy’ Aquino

FRONTLINE

Ninez Cacho-Olivares

08/14/2011
It’s getting pretty clear that the puppet master behind the “secret deal” forged between Noynoy and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front during the clandestine Tokyo meeting, where Noynoy virtually caved in to the MILF demands for a fairly independent Moro substate — as indicated by Noynoy’s push for the creation of a BangsaMoro substate whose terms would be no different from the terms shown up in the scrapped Memorandum of Agreement on Ancestral Domain (MoA-AD) — is none other than good ole Uncle Sam.

Noynoy cannot be that stupid not to realize that creating a substate, as demanded by the MILF, cannot be done without a constitutional change, which is really what it is also all about between Uncle Sam and Noynoy-san.

Of course, whenever Uncle is involved but still always lurking in the shadows, that which is really desired — which is an independent substate for the BangsaMoro nation — won’t first be shown up in the cards Uncle and Amboy hold.

So Uncle speaks of the need for the Philippines to change its Constitution for the country to be able to join the exclusive Pacific trade club..... MORE

Source:  The Daily Tribune

URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/commentary/20110814com2.html