A GROUP of a dozen and a half retired generals and colonels calling themselves 'Advocates for the National Interest' issued a statement a week ago that tried to spread the colossal lies the Yellows and former magistrate Antonio Carpio have been spreading on the South China Sea dispute.

This mostly septuagenarian lot should do what retired generals of integrity anywhere in the world do, which is to shut their mouths on an incumbent president's policies and on issues they either know nothing about or are too lazy to study - unless their intention is to spread rumors that there is a coup d'etat in the works.