Ferrer’s duplicity

God save America if Hillary Clinton becomes US President and her idea of a good female leader turns out to be personified by Philippine government peace panel chairperson Miriam Coronel-Ferrer or by Presidential Peace Process Adviser Teresita Deles.

If only to gain media mileage, it may not be beyond Clinton to invent a “woman empowerment” award to hand to Ferrer and Deles like pulling a rabbit from a hat. Fact is, Clinton has already put Ferrer and Deles on an undeserved pedestal in the self-serving report of her foundation entitled No Ceilings.

Clinton feted Ferrer as “the first woman ever to serve as a chief negotiator for a peace agreement” as if the UP professor should be judged based on the appointment per se and not on the horrible “bitter fruit” of her and Deles’ treacherous liaisons with the MILF.

Clinton should be asked, but at what cost to us Filipinos would this “peace” being naively peddled by Ferrer under the baton and orchestration of Iqbal alias Mohammed or alias Datucan Abbas come?

The Bangsamoro entity which Ferrer and Iqbal want Congress to create and the people to ratify in a referendum would never bring peace in Mindanao for it is tailor-made to be exploited by the MILF to the exclusion of all other stakeholders in Muslim Mindanao.

In the Bangsamoro, the MILF wants a sub-state that would serve as their platform to launch a final push for independence  from the Philippines, aided no doubt by Malaysia with whom Iqbal and other MILF leaders pledge allegiance to.

Ferrer is a veritable creation of Iqbal. She is the puppet whose strings are being pulled by the MILF. Ask yourselves, would   Ferrer   not be in the lofty position for which Clinton heaped praises on her if not for Iqbal saying that the MILF amenable to talking peace opposite a woman?

The moro-moro was for Iqbal and a Malaysian prince who overlooked the flawed peace talks to initially express reservations against a woman chair of a GRP peace process, only to approve of her after much hele-hele bago quiere.  –end-