It was bound to happen. A visiting third world leader regaling his American audience with tales of his country like it were a Camelot across the sea would soon enough be rudely interrupted by, well, hecklers shouting back their version of the real situation back home. This is the principle of balance — of equity on another plane — at work. Nature abhors even a mere near-vacuum and moves to restore the balance, the equilibrium, when it is disturbed. For more than 10 days, in Europe and the United States, President Noynoy Aquino went around peddling a lopsided story of a Philippines of peace and plenty where, he claimed, crooked officials have been jailed, the deprived finally given jobs and food, and foreign investors are now jostling to come in.
Posted on: Thu, 25 Sep 2014 06:32:45 +0000
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