Weak leadership
| FRONTLINE |
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| Ninez Cacho-Olivares |
It wasn’t in the national interest to bow to China by toeing its line to have foreign governments boycott the Nobel Peace Prize awarding ceremony, on account of some five Filipino drug mules who have been meted the death sentence. It was weak Philippine leadership that was more behind the boycott.
China is unlike, say, the Muslim countries, where the convicts in death row can easily be set free by its ruling monarchs, or the relatives of the victims’ accepting blood money in return for the Filipinos’ freedom.
Hate Gloria Arroyo all one wants, but the fact remains that it was under her presidency that she personally talked with Muslim leaders to set free detained Filipinos in death row jails in their countries.
Noynoy in his six months of the presidency hardly took notice of the thousands of detained Filipinos, abused OFWs, rape victims and other offenders, but suddenly has a bleeding heart for five Filipino drug mules, in whose freedom rests our national interest — so he falsely claims..... MORE
Source: The Daily Tribune
URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/commentary/20101214com2.html
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