They’re Killing Americans in Jolo now

There is a wave of bombings in Sulu Province. And now, it’s Iraq, Afghanistan, Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos all over. American troops are the target. And this only happened now. This time the culprits employed a high explosive. And the method of delivery was a landmine. Something that is never done traditionally by Abu Sayyaf. And sure enough, quick to the interview, were the opposers of the visiting forces agreement. While the victims of Typhoon Ondoy in Manila are crying, American soldiers are dying in Sulu. What do they have to kill the Americans for? They’re building water facilities for Muslims who need water each time they pray, and that’s five times a day, sometimes more. They’re even helping build Islamic schools out there. They built a disaster response center at the back of the Provincial Capitol Building for God’s sake! Still the terrorists and bandits want them dead. What, for VFA to be kicked out the door? Spare the young and helpful US soldiers assigned there please, calling on our Muslim brothers. The enemy is greater from within (greater Jihad). Those that help bring prosperity cannot be the enemy.  When we were in Sulu, we thought we stepped on a different planet. We were set back about sixty to one hundred years backward!!! Why? Isn’t there an agenda to that?

RISE UP SULU!  RISE!
TAKE UP THE CUDGELS FOR PROGRESS!
PEACE!
DEVELOPMENT!
RISE BROTHERS, SISTERS, RISE!

Local Disaster Management

Thank you for your post Archangel. Pity those people who drowned in the flood. Of course Sec. Teodoro is saying that no one drowned at sea this time.  But it will be the height of shamelessness if the Coast Guard allowed or dispatched ships in those conditions in September 26. This should actually have been done a long time ago.  It is ideal to localize.  If they think in terms of a network platform of staging operations, they can actually do it. This concept is readily and easily available even on the internet. Still and all, there is a problem in communications, in money matters — er, economics, a lot of politics (Liberal Party posturing with the leftists that government is to blame for the mess), a lot more corruption, the lack of equipment for forecasting and rescue be it for typhoons, floods, avalanche, log stampede, etc. at Pag-asa, Office of Civil Defense, Philippine Navy, Philippine Coast Guard, Philippine Air Force, the Maritime Group of the PNP, local government units, among others.  Yes, I vote for going local, after all nothing is truer than the doctrine of ideal time and motion: more results with less motion and less time.  Let’s only hope that our leaders try for once to think straight and forget about agendas.  Lives are at stake.  Who knows if they or their loved ones are next?

Postscript:  Its also sad that the relatives and the people of the late Cory will not have a mind to return our flood control funds from Japan. Damn that we’re paying for the loan to the Japanese.  Sad as well that we have to say good bye to all the other monies stolen for other flood control projects.