Senator Trillanes, the "Back Channel" negotiator with China, fires a broadside at Foreign Affairs Secretary del Rosario, PH govt's fightingest official today
BAKIT???? SENATOR TRILLANES, WHY 'ATTACK' SERETARY DEL ROSARIO FOR STANDING UP TO CHINA AND FOR DENOUNCING CHINA'S HIGHHANDED TACTICS AGAINST THE PHILIPPINES? MEDYO MALABO ANG MGA DAHILAN MO, SENATOR!
OUR VIEW:
Firstly, with regard to your reason that you were “assigned for a long time to that area and we did what had to be done without making noise in the media. We were able to protect our territory without making a big thing out of it in the press.”
Senator Trillanes, may we remind you that you were then a junior officer, so junior (and remained a junior officer until you had your "falling out" with the Navy), you would not have been allowed by your Flag-Officer-in-Command to even utter a word in his presence unless asked. You then belonged to the category of soldiers who Lord Tennnyson wrote about, "Theirs was not to reason why, theirs but to do and die." So you could not have spoken -- not even in your wildest dreams, to the press about military operations.
Secondly, Senator, lest you forget, there was nothing exceptional about being "able to protect our territory without making a big thing out of it in the press..." because the military organisation's role IS TO PROTECT OUR TERRITORY REGARDLESS OF THE PRESS. FULL STOP!
Furthermore, you are wrong to say that the Philippine Navy (we assume you are speaking of the service command you once belonged to) did not make "a big thing out of it in the press." Well, Senator, we've got news for you... Oh yes, they did or tried at the very least!!! But media then perhaps had other things to fry so it was media that did not make "a big thing of it."
In fact, if you remember, the Navy then had N-7, the assistant chief of naval staff in charge of liasing with the public, with the press or media, with the civilian world in general, in other words, let's get it right, Senator, NAVY ANNOUNCED and ISSUED PRESS RELEASES TO MEDIA regarding its achievements. So, let's cut the crap, shall we, Senator?
NOW, on your direct attack at Secretary del Rosario telling him “I hope that would be the approach of the DFA and that it just lets the DND do its job on the ground without making any unnecessary scandal when there is still none."
ARE YOU SAYING that you approve of what China is doing, that it is not a scandal and that we should keep silent about it? Now, we are frankly at a loss... WHY ON EARTH SHOULD THE HIGHEST FOREIGN AFFAIRS OFFICIAL OF THE LAND BE SILENT ABOUT CHINA's BELLIGERENT ACTIONS AGAINST THE PHILIPPINES?
Are you forgetting that Secretary del Rosario's duties include handling foreign policy on behalf of the president of the republic and ennunciating the country's stand on matters that affect relations with another country, especially with a hostile country like China? Really, we don't understand why this bellicose attitude towards Secretary del Rosario who is only doing his job to defend the country's position from a foreign affairs policy standpoint! BUT WHAT IS YOUR PROBLEM SENATOR?
AND FINALLY, Senator, when you lecture Secretary del Rosario and tell him not to be an "alarmist", we think you are WRONG! UTTERLY, DIABOLICALLY WRONG! We think that Secretary del Rosario is doing what any honorable and responsible government official is doing: HE IS INFORMING THE CITIZENS OF THIS COUNTRY AND THE REST OF THE WORLD THAT THERE IS A PROBLEM AND A SOLUTION MUST BE FOUND TO SOLVE THE PROBLEM! It is one way to assert our nation's rights and possibly (yes, we say, 'possibly' because there is never a guarantee that things will ideally pan out in the end -- not with hostile and ambitious China anyway), avert an even worse scenario that will find us all with our pants down.
Appeasement is not the solution to the China problem, Senator... As one of the founders of this Defenders Community, an illustrious Operation Merdeka hero and who, incidentally, was also a naval officer, said, "Knowing that he will not meet any resistance is the best encouragement any bully can ever have."
To be perfectly honest, Senator, we were not expecting you to throw your support to Secretary del Rosario but really, your firing a broadside at him takes the cake.
THE PHILIPPINE DAILY INQUIRER REPORT:
Trillanes to DFA: Don’t be alarmistBy Philip C. Tubeza2:33 am | Wednesday, January 16th, 20132 337 322
Sen. Antonio Trillanes IV on Tuesday scored the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) for its “alarmist” posturing against China in the territorial dispute in the West Philippine Sea (South China Sea).
Trillanes, who conducted back-channel talks with China at Malacañang’s behest last year, said the DFA should let the Department of National Defense (DND) do its job and apprehend intruders in Philippine-owned areas in the sea, and not announce everything to the media.
“I was assigned for a long time to that area and we did what had to be done without making noise in the media. We were able to protect our territory without making a big thing out of it in the press,” said Trillanes, a former junior Navy officer, in a media forum in Manila.
“I hope that would be the approach of the DFA and that it just lets the DND do its job on the ground without making any unnecessary scandal when there is still none,” he said.
“We are becoming alarmist when that is not necessary,” he added.
Trillanes said the DFA should quietly confirm any foreign incursions in Philippine territory without broadcasting it to the world.
In his time, he said, “our Navy boarded and immediately searched ships that (entered) the country’s territory and you didn’t need to announce that.”
He said the Philippines then took actions to assert its authority over the disputed territories, “without declaring war or agitating anybody.”
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IN PICTURE: Then junior naval officer turned senator Trillanes before the press during the internationally media-hyped Oakwood Mutiny
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