tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-620093712762825386.post3639530799237886..comments2023-10-31T06:33:48.556-07:00Comments on The Rainbow Blog Philippines: Yellow RibbonYffar (^^,)http://www.blogger.com/profile/02254316148983198508noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-620093712762825386.post-53950078604545928772009-08-05T11:20:10.482-07:002009-08-05T11:20:10.482-07:00I was old enough to watch the people of Manila top...I was old enough to watch the people of Manila topple Marcos with Cory Aquino as their titular leader. She was a symbol for peoples all over the world -- especially in Eastern Europe and Asia -- to peacefully protest the end of ruthless regimes. However, after two decades of dictatorial rule, she was confronted with right wing extremism in the military and a highly successful civil war run by the left. Her inability to do much during her term was only because she had to spend so much of it protecting the political process itself.<br /><br />That was here greatness and what people around the world will remember. The rest of it, exempting Hacienda Luisita from agrarian reform, terminating all of her left-leaning cabinets members after the first two coup attempts, etc., jumping into every minor political scandal after retirement was that of an ordinary politician and nothing great in itself.<br /><br />It is sad that our domestic media does not focus too much on what made her great and focuses way too much on the petty stuff and the intrigues. Perhaps it is because a part of us cannot face our own greatness as a people.LoFhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17790755800889443785noreply@blogger.com