10 Possible Scenarios Why There Should Be No All Out-War

ALL OUT WAR?

        As triggered by the Mamasapano incident, people belonging to several groups call for President Noynoy Aquino to launch an all-out war against the MILF and BIFF but is an all-out war the best thing to do for this moment? I think it’s not.

If the government will launch an all-out war against the MILF and BIFF:

1.       The greater casualties will not belong to both the government and the rebels but to the civilians who will be displaced during military encounters.

2.       Philippine economy will be down.

3.       Many lives will be sacrificed.

4.       The decades-long Government and MILF peace process will go into waste.

5.       There is no certainty that insurgency in our country will end.

6.       If we seek help from allied countries like Japan and America there is also a possibility that international terrorist groups will also help the rebels. Are we prepared that our Philippine soil will become a battlefield?

7.       The greater slice of the annual budget of the government will go to military instead of education and health.

8.       Our country will become poorer and poorer.

9.       There will be greater avenues for corruption from the military supplies.

10.   Instead of peace we will harvest chaos.

          

                 I am not saying that we will forget the Massacre, we will never forget the incident that killed 44 SAF Commandos however we will pursue justice and ensure that the perpetrators will pay in the strongest possible sense of the law but not in launching an all-out war, instead the government should launch an all-out justice for the 44 lives that was banished during the encounter. The government should let those responsible for the sad incident be made accountable even how high or low are there positions in the society and utilize other avenues so that justice will be serve. Lastly, we should learn from that incident and prevent it from happening again.