Leading by slogans

Leading by slogans

Philippine President Benigno Aquino III seems to possess a lush fountainhead of ideas to run on. The president’s handlers always appear ready to prep Noynoy Aquino with a steady diet of slogans to use whenever the president needs them to show his thin veneer of leadership on issues that face the nation.

Take the recent Al-Barka skirmish in Basilan last October 18 that resulted in the death of 19 government soldiers. Pushed by many to exact revenge and launch an all-out war against the Moro rebels, which Joseph Estrada waged against the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) in 2000 during his short-lived presidency, Noynoy Aquino instead chose to pursue his newest slogan of “all-out justice.”

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