A WELTER of domestic issues has covered from public view the real issues that should concern all Filipinos. Thanks to the government's obsessive preoccupation with the antics of former President Rodrigo Duterte and his daughter Vice President Sara Duterte, it has found no time to look into the all-important foreign policy and national security issues like the presence of a US military Task Force Ayungin in Palawan, for purposes best known (if not only) to the Americans. US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin announced this during his recent visit without supplying any details.
The Marcos government has not talked to the nation about it, which means that either it knows nothing about it or it has chosen to hide it from us. I hope that when Congress finally gets done with its quad committee and blue ribbon inquiries into Duterte's drug war and the vice president's confidential funds, it will find the time and the inclination to take a serious look into this issue.
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