WASHINGTON. D.C. Before the Banyan Tree Leadership Forum at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, Vice President Jejomar Binay hailed the newly minted Enhanced Defense Cooperation Agreement (EDCA).
Hereunder are direct quotes from the Veep’s speech, below them in italics, the paraphrase of an unrepentant communist. “A stronger American military presence in the Philippines and greater interoperability between our respective armed forces dramatically increases our individual and collective defense capabilities, providing a dramatic deterrent against external aggression.”
A stronger American military presence in the Philippines and greater operability of its armed forces dramatically increases our subservience to the US, highlights our defense incapacities, providing a dramatic deterrent to our national pride.
“Through the EDCA, we have effectively upgraded our own security platform, without shifting a significant portion of our limited resources to support an arms race and procure weapons systems that exceed our normal defense requirements.”
Through the EDCA, we have effectively surrendered our own security platform (to the US), without so much as a whimper, gratified at having saved all those funds for the modernization of our armed forces, exceeding – in view of our limited resources – our expectations of modestly decent defense requirements.
“It will soothe and calm the investment climate in the Philippines. It enables us to focus better on developing a solid economic base to combat poverty, unemployment, illiteracy and disease.”
It will soothe and calm the business climate in the Philippines, backed by a strong American presence. It enables us to focus better on developing a service economy aligned to American needs, to R&R primarily.
Even as programs to fight poverty, unemployment, illiteracy and disease will find greater benefits in Congress and the Senate. (Read: PDAF, DAP, or however the pork barrel will be euphemized.)
“We have always believed and will continue to hold ourselves to the principle that the future of mankind lies not in conflict nor war, but in dialogue, cooperation, development and peace.”
We have always believed and will continue to hold to the principle that America holds the future, whether through state-sponsored confl icts and interventionist wars, or in GI Joeimposed peace. Pax Americana rules.
“Let me stress, nonetheless, that our support for EDCA does not reflect a freezing of ties with China. Nor do we view the disputes in the South China Sea as the totality of our bilateral relations with China.”
Let me stress, nonetheless, that our support for EDCA has epoxied our ties with America, to the utter detriment of whatever left of our frayed bonds with China. By that, we view the disputes in the South China Sea as the futility of continuing our relations with China.
“In the end, trade, as well as the deep filial ties that bind our peoples will prevail over the issues of territory and boundaries that are currently threatening our relationship.” In the end, as Mao declared, China will win. Period.
“We must harmonize local and national laws to ensure investors of orderly business operations. We must cure the policy and infrastructure misalignments that emerge as we cascade our gains to the grassroots.
We must amend our Constitution to ensure foreign investors of greater control of our natural resources, mastery over our patrimony, dominance of our national being. We must cure the policy and infrastructure misalignments that emerge as we hand over our country to American capitalism.
“And we must keep our promise to maintain a clean and transparent government with a stable policy regime into 2016 and beyond.” And we must keep our promise to maintain a government thoroughly dedicated to America into 2016 and beyond.
LEADING the latest poll of presidentiables at 40 percent, Binay, in his Banyan Tree Leadership Forum address, already delivered his first policy speech in his virtual fi rst state visit to the US. And the Americans could not have been happier at this very embodiment of their colonial little brown brother.
Jojo-bama, indeed. The six-percent surveyed Mar Roxas could only wail and gnash his teeth.
