THIS is the funniest joke I’ve heard. How in the world can the Philippine Army accomplish in 39 weeks what it did not accomplish in 39 years?
While that is mathematically probable, that is realistically impossible. During the last 39 years, the Army has not been successful in reducing the New People’s Army (NPA) strength except in some successful campaigns. So the NPAs continue to attack army detachments and police headquarters and confiscate guns and ammunition. For [Lieutenant General Alexander] Yano to say that, reflects the style of his commander in chief who promised to create 10 million jobs in six years.
CPP downfall in 39 weeks? If that’s not suntok sa buwan, what else would we call that? If he is not joking, he is either out of this world or out of his mind, hence, his nonsense predictions.
– Tom Mascarinas, Agusan del Sur, Philippines (via e-mail)
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January 4th, 2008 at 1:02 pm
the AFP and the current and past regimes have time and again missed the entire point in solving the insurgency problem. we can never end insurgency by implementing a criminal policy of militarization/total war/all out war in 39 weeks, 39 years, or even 39 decades!
if GMA and her army generals (plus dorkk and the rest of the populace who know nothing of the insurgency problem yet are the staunchest advocates of a military solution) are sincere in ending CPP’s armed revolution, why not sincerely talk peace with them?
January 4th, 2008 at 12:10 pm
Ay nako, pang ilang promise na ba yan na matatalo ang CPP, old news. Di ba huling promise niyo eh tapos na sila ngayong 2007? Ngayon extension na naman. Papaano kung 2010 di pa rin nagawa, extension uli?
Gusto niyong matalo ang CPP? Unang una, dapat tapusin na ng administrasyon ang katiwalian nila. Papaano niyo mapapaniwala ang taumbayan kung puro kasinungalingan, abuso, kurapson, pagtatakip at pagliliko ng hustisya and inaatupag ng administrasyon at ang kaKAMPI nito?
Alam niyo ba ang pinakamalakas na bagay na pangre-recruit ng CPP-NPA ngayon? Eh di ano pa kundi ang katiwalian ng administrasyong ito. Pati rank and file ng militar eh kinakana nila, eh ano pa kaya ang ordinaryong mamamayan?
“…Hello Garci, hello Bedol, meron ba kayong P 500,000 diyan sa Malacanang na magamit pang-pocket money? Wala ba? Sige, kukuha na lang kami sa pondo ng Kongreso ng tig P 250,000 para bonus namin. Ay sori, di pala namin pwede dagdagan ang sahod ng ordinaryong sundalo, wala kaming pera eh, yung general na lang ang dadagdagan natin, mas kawawa naman sila…”
Tanungin niyo sarili ninyo kung bakit mahirap masugpo ang CPP, sa macacapal siguro alam niyo na.
January 4th, 2008 at 11:52 am
I think what makes this laughable is the fact that the general and the Arroyo administration (and all the previous administrations, in fact), have never actually tried to understand why the CPP-NPA have endured for so long. For as long as there is dissastifaction, corruption, injustice, inequality, inequity, and all the other social and moral ills that plague this country, the CPP-NPA will continue to exist as a bastion of hope for all those people who have given up hope on the legal and legitimate administration. Granted the CPP-NPA question all that democracy stands for, but can you blame people for wanting something better? something revolutionary? We make fun of the general because, as always, he is yet one more in a host of government people, bureacrats and what-have-yous, GMA being the ringleader of the lot, who absolutely have no clue about what’s going on here. Worse, they have a clue, but turn the other way, and think that eradicating the CPP-NPA…in 39 weeks no less (insert laugh track here)…will make all their problems go away…yes, I vehemently agree: they are out of this world…or maybe out of their minds…I don’t know which is worse…
January 4th, 2008 at 11:44 am
It may be suntok sa buwan, but then again, it’s probable. And I really would like to see the downfall of CPP-NPA in my lifetime. The government may be bad and all that, but it’s an institution that we the people can help change. And the CPP is advocating the use of violence to advance change, which I think has no place in our present time. I have always believed that if CPP-NPA were to be effective in making change to happen, they should “strike” where the government is weak - like putting up programs for the benefit of the poor instead of raiding their sacks of rice and chicken in the countryside, putting up mechanisms or working support groups for certain sectors instead of spending millions on bullets, guns, red paint and cloth for streamers and vandalism in public places, being more pro-active in the community of nations by establishing networks and groups. That way, the government will be forced to rethink and to mend its ways. But really now, as it stands, CPP-NPA is not helping anybody and is actually becoming more like the present government - it so happened that the NPA is on the other side of the fence. Mga pulitiko din, makaliwa nga lang.
And for the rest of us? Well, maybe we should do our own share of initiating change in the society before we become too comfortable being mere armchair complainers and critiques.
January 4th, 2008 at 7:39 am
CPP downfall in 39 weeks? Highly unlikely, however Gloria needs this propaganda mileage to keep hawkish generals happy and divert attention from her administration’s and her allies’ shenanigans.