Death of SAF 44: An eye for an eye ?

by Felizar Mortillero

What did former U.S. President George Walker Bush Jr. do after the Al-Qaeda bombed the ill-fated Twin Towers of New York the symbol of the American economy and the Pentagon the symbol of American military might? Did he say thank you to Al-Qaeda for doing that very damaging act of the Muslim extremists? Did he offer an act of peace to the culprits? Did he ask Al-Qaeda and Afghanistan, the country which harbored Al-Qaeda and Osama bin Laden to have peace talks with America? The answer was in the negative.

George Walker Bush Jr. instead asked the Afghan government to surrender the perpetrators of such horrendous acts to justice, and warned the latter to be also included in an American military offensive against the Al-Qaeda if the same would fail to deliver Osama bin Laden and his Al-Qaeda peers to the proper agents of justice. After the said ultimatum and after the American Congress approved the declaration of war by the American President, the quest for justice and the Afghan-Al-Qaeda-American War began and the rest became part of HISTORY. To make the long story short of that conflict, America won the war and JUSTICE was served to the innocent victims.

Now, it is also the time for Philippine President Benigno Simeon Aquino III to make a Bush Act. It is my humble view that the President shall also make an ultimatum against those responsible for the killings of 44 agents of SAF-PNP in the quest of JUSTICE. If the ultimatum would not be heeded by the perpetrators then a declaration of war must be ordered by the President of the Republic of the Philippines against the Moro Islamic Liberation Front and the Bangsamoro Independence Freedom Fighters for deceitfully eliminating the forty four (44) operatives of the Special Armed Force of the Philippine National Police who only set foot on Maguindanao soil to only carry the orders to arrest MARWAN an