

“Rodrigo Duterte was not the first politician in the world to declare war on a domestic issue {sound familiar US}. Wars on poverty, pornography, hunger, obesity, cancer, & drugs have been launched & fought by presidents & potentates long before Duterte. None of these wars have so far been won. None of that matters, because for the politician, the declaration is a victory all its own. The headlines are printed. The campaigns get their slogans. The