By Mortz C. Ortigoza, MPA
We're a weak nation with a craven government. Malacanang downplayed the aggression of the Chinese against our Navy SEALs last June 17 at Ayungin Shoal.
President Ferdinand Marcos should be warned that Filipinos have been affronted on that incident. We should have apprised Beijing that we're going to ask the U.S to escort us the next time we have resupply mission to our Marines hold in at our decrepit naval ship's BRP Sierra Madre we intentionally snagged there.
Again, what the personnel of Chinese Coast Guard (CCG) have done was a casus belle or an act of war when they threatened with ax, machete or bolo and fish hook cum spear our men, confiscated eight of the firearms of the uniformed SEAL members, rammed our vessels that chopped off a thumb of one of the SEALs, and punctured and towed our rubber boat with passengers on board.
SEAL teams of other countries especially the U.S and the British Special Air Service (SAS) were lauded for their gallantry and intrepidity despite being outnumbered.
One example of that when seven SAS men sneaked behind enemy line in Iraq to destroy the Scud missiles of that butcher Saddam Hussein but was exposed and sorrounded by tanks and superior in number Iraqi soldiers probably the elite Republican Guards. Those lads fought by using what they had including their portable Javelins - that lethal heat seeking missiles or rockets used by the Ukrainians to obliterate Vladimir Putin's tanks when they invaded Kiev in February 2022.
This ( Pinoy) was the only SEAL Team I know who were humiliated before the eyes of the people in the world. Tit for tat they should have punctured too the rubber boats of the CCG.
Pag ganoon lang pala ang mangyayari sana Barangay Tanod o CAFGU (Citizens Armed Forces Geographical Unit) na lang ang pinag escort niyo sa resupply mission.
Adding insult to injury was the pronouncement of the Philippine National Maritime Council and Executive Secretary Luis Bersamin that the donnybrook and the scuffle with the Chinese were all misunderstanding.
"Well, you know this was probably a misunderstanding or an accident. We're not yet ready to classify this as an armed attack. I don't know kung 'yong mga nakita namin is bolo, axe, nothing beyond that." Bersamin, a former Justice of the Supreme Court, said.
Susmariosep! What happened to our country, General?!
This to paraphrase Philippines Vice President Emmanuel Pelaez posing the question to General Tomas Karingal when he was ambushed and wounded by two car loads of malefactors in 1982 near his home in Quezon City
Bersamin just emphasized our being a sissy and a whipping boy of the CCG.
It's high time to ask our military ally the U.S and its armed juggernauts to escort our soldiers in the resupply mission.
Time too to bring construction materials there to strengthen the Sierra Madre and its sorrounding. It's treason to just give up that reef to the enemy.
It is a symbol of our sovereignty - not discounting the countless millions of barrels of crude underneath - and it is worth dying for!
Of course with the backs up of the Yanks through our Mutual Defense Treaty with Washington.
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