Where have all the Generals gone?

There are troubles all over the archipelago. You can hear gun shots here and there and everywhere. The news about crime activities are rampant. Crimes are left unabated. Rebellion, they continue to flourish and grow in strength and numbers. Now, we ask, where have all the generals gone?

In the army, the generals are the ones in control of the command. They know all the activities that their armies are doing in the command. They know how the enemies are doing through their intelligence network so that and he positions his army strategically to prevent enemies from lording over them. I have not been in the army, but from what I understand, these are the military basics.

This is also true in the police work. the police is there to maintain peace and order in the city. A little different scene from the military work because the police talks about inside forces and scalawags that causes trouble in the land. The military talks more about outside enemies of the country. Generals whether in the military or in the police have the same scope of work and command responsibilities.

Positioning military personnel around you is relative to preparing for war. You will never go wrong if you have military men surrounding you and protecting you, so much more if these men are former generals in the military. Your house will really be formidable.

In the Philippines, the Arroyo government must have this feeling of inadequacy against outside intrusion because they have positioned plenty of former military generals in the government service. You can just imagine about 60% of the government posts appointed by the president are assigned to former military generals.

We know for sure that military men are best in obeying orders without questions asked. They are like horses with bits that they would follow wherever their master wishes to go. And they will do it with total loyalty that they are committed to it even to death. This is the beauty of having military men around you, it is likened to having a genie who would grant all your 3 wishes to come true.

What makes me wonder though is that why would they position these generals if there are no external threats? What I notice is that the administration is always at threat politically. Political enemies of the president are almost always at the doorstep of Malacañan waiting to seize the opportunity to topple the administration.

It may be a wise move for the Philippine President to position these generals to really have a formidable governent, specially in this very unstable time. If the philippine president thinks that she needs these generals to stabilize the governemtn and maintain peace and order within her ranks, then these generals are of good use. But if she intends to position these generals so that she can be invincible in the government in times of crisis, then let the people think twice. they are even positioning another former general to run as presidnet for the next election. We might be headed to a militarize government.

I remember when it was during President Estrada's term when the people revolted against him because of the corruption he committed he was ousted. He was ousted because even the military bolted out from him. In the time of president marcos, the full support of the military was divided which somehow caused his dilema to either declare war and cause bloodshed or just let it go. He let go off it in the end, which finally came about what is known today as the EDSA Revolution (People Power).

If you notice that these political stalwarts had the military behind every issue which brought them either success or downfall. The Arroyo administratin may be contemplating to edify the governement with military men to further secure loyalty from the military ranks and thereby avoid a similar incident as that of strada's where the military isolated him in his troubled time.

Whatever they are opt to is something that the people needs to be vigilant about.