Failing at it
| FRONTLINE |
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| Ninez Cacho-Olivares |
A statesman, Noynoy can’t ever hope to be, given the way he conducted himself at an Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (Apec) meeting where he continued to press on the way foreign governments have singled the Philippines in issuing terror threat warnings and travel advisories.
He also stressed that these advisories issued by the six countries he did not name, although everyone there at Apec must have known just which countries he meant, since he has been at it for days or end, had no basis and merely based on text messages.
What was even worse, is that Noynoy kept up with his spiel that these advisories of a credible terrorist activity have absolutely no basis — and this he kept on repeating despite the fact that the Department of Foreign Affairs, Manila, had already sought replies from these six governments through a note verbale, to which the countries had already replied, while standing firm on their government’s advisories.
The way to see Noynoy’s strange behavior at the Apec Summit is that he is trying so hard to prove to these leaders that he is a strong leader, and nothing like that image that the Asean leaders, not to mention world leaders, have of him, with the way he and his security aides bungled the rescue operations of the Hong Kong tourists last Aug. 23, which unfortunately showed his lack of leadership and preparedness for the presidency.
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Source: The Daily Tribune
URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/commentary/20101114com2.html
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