Vintage Noynoy

If the rebuttal was intended to be a prelude to a legal defense anchored on a plea of insanity, I will accept it. Otherwise, it just sounded like an explainer for an entirely different incident, something that probably happened in another country or even in some alternative Aquino universe.

I’d forgotten how different former President Noynoy Aquino sees things from most people. Then I read his response to the allegations made by President Rodrigo Duterte earlier this week and I suddenly got a full dose of Aquino’s unique worldview to make up for the seven or so months that he’s been quiet in his Times Street man-cave.

What roused Aquino from his self-imposed seclusion was Duterte’s decision to create a commission that would revisit what is probably the worst military debacle of any contemporary administration — the slaughter of 44 police commandos that became known as the Mamasapano Massacre. You’d have to go all the way back to the treacherous Patikul Massacre of 1977 to find a similar incident, and then you’d “only” end up with 35 Army soldiers slain.

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