Being A Filipino, I Knew I Said It Right

In my last Article, “Gunboat Diplomacy”, I ended it by saying:

I just hope that all that is not hot air and that they really have the means to bring our fellow Filipinos home to safety in the event of an escalation of hostility.

I don’t suppose one of President Benigno Aquino’s aides or the President himself visited Lainy’s Musings and read that.

Well, what would you expect me to suggest when I read this?:

MANILA, Philippines – President Aquino wants a more concrete evacuation plan for Filipino workers in the event of a full-blown war in the Korean peninsula.

Okay, that’s not too bad. The Boss wants the job done well and can’t take another botched rescue job. Then that statement was followed with this other piece which to me is a howler!

We have to prepare ourselves in terms of the eventualities there. We should be prepared. For example, if there is nuclear attack – are we prepared to handle that? Do we have materials for that?” President’s spokesman Lacierda said. “Those are the concerns we have raised.

Really now, I find Lacierda’s hyperbole amusing. I should remind Lacierda that it was discovered that the Philippine Police who stormed the hijacked tourist bus in Manila were not well equipped and the ensuing investigations reported that even the bullet proof vests that they wore were manufacture expired and falling apart being wet by rain?

Besides, that was a handful of Philippine Police who stormed the ill fated tourist bus. We’re talking of 60,000 Filipinos currently in South Korea! Betcha the Philippines does not have anything close to that number to supply anti-nuclear whatever.

And Mr. Lacierda, in the event of a nuclear attack, I’d say that unless there is fortified underground bunkers in South Korea for our Filipinos to escape swift and imminent death, not even armor in the fashion of the days of King Arthur and made of steel, handed to our brothers and sisters in South Korea would save them.

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JACKIE