No point in building up armory: PBBM

This is one quotable quote from PBBM which he uttered during a dialogue at the World Economic Forum with the conference president Børge Brende in Davos, when asked if he would double the defense budget like Japan is doing.

PBM answered that “... the belief is that first of all, there is no point the Philippines building up it’s armory.” This so far one of the wisest and most profound, honest and I think courageous statement from PBBM that we have heard so far.

is not an enemy.” The internal security threat from insurgencies needs more socio-economic-politicalaffirmative action more than expansion of military hardware.

the Asia-Pacific nations “won’t embrace the ‘Cold War’ mentality.”

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Think a minute… These are the names of some of the most famous lawyers in U.S. history. Only one of them dropped out of law school. See if you can guess which one?

John Jay became a successful lawyer and later the first Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, the highest judge in the land.

William Wirt was barely 20-years-old when he passed his law exams in Virginia. He later became the United States Attorney General.

Remember, one of these famous lawyers was a law school dropout.

Roger Taney started as a lawyer and worked his way up to become the first U.S. Secretary of the Treasury and then the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court.

Daniel Webster became a lawyer in Boston where he built a great legal record and reputation. He then became a highly respected Senator and was later appointed Secretary of State.

Salmon Chase became well known as a defense attorney helping slaves. Later he became a U.S. Senator and then the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court.

Abraham Lincoln, the 16th

It’s an important statement because it is one of the rare spontaneous answers from PBBM that we have heard so far from him and really delivers important truths the nation must hear, understand and take to heart.

It incorporates several messages, the first of which is a truth and a fact that the Philippines has no external security threat, contrary to the alarmism Western Powers’ political, business, academic and think tank, and mainstream media networks say of the “China threat”.

It is, and should be regularly raised to remind people, a confirmation of what former National Security Adviser and retired general Hermogenes Esperon said publicly halfa-dozen times that “China