Opportunity knocks on your doorsteps only once,” a famous adage always says. Do we believe in this? We don’t know for others, but for us we do believe.
An opportunity is like running water in the river which will never return if you let it go. An opportunity that already knocked at you will never again knock same as the way it is. If it will knock again, it will be different.
Most of the time, the same opportunity will never come back. If it will and is the same as is, then you must be one of the luckiest persons. But we all know that life is not only about luck. According to some experts, luck is only 10% of success. That means, 90% of success depends on people.
The greatest opportunity for the Government of the Philippines (GPH) and Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) to settle the right to self-determination struggle of the Bangsamoro people is after they signed the Comprehensive Agreement on the Bangsamoro (CAB) in March this year. This agreement is an honest compromise between independence that the MILF always desires and government preference for token autonomy as in the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM). We do not know of any other framework agreement or any time in the future that this rare chance of a breakthrough will avail itself: most likely not in the lifetime of the current leadership of the MILF nor within the term of office of the next president sitting in the Palace.
If the two Parties do not grab this opportunity or if they fail by their own making, the future might change dramatically, not in the liking of the MILF, because it has already adopted a policy of staying engaged in the path of peace. But there are other armed groups or even the enviers who feast on the failure of the peace efforts.
But even without wanting to wash their “dirty linen” in the open, people’s minds are already wandering to suspect the comments made by the Office of the President (OP) especially its legal team on the proposed Bangsamoro Basic Law (BBL) crafted by the MILF-led Bangsamoro Transition Commission (BTC) as causing the delay.
We do not want to confirm or deny this suspicion. The government and MILF have not opened much on this. The reason is not only for modesty sake, we are sure, but more importantly, it is the only right course of action.
Be this as it may, but what is threatening in this particular instance is the tightening timeline. The two parties have agreed to submit the BBL--- an agreed version, we believe --- to Congress on July 28 in time for the State-of-the-Nation Address (SONA) of President Benigno Aquino III. In a negotiation, even a disagreement on a single verb or word takes hours for the Parties to settle. How much more for a thick document such as the BBL?
Let us just hope for the best and pray that they overcome their differences. After all, they have no other option except to agree.
http://www.luwaran.com/index.php/editorial/item/1064-opportunity-knocks-only-once
Most of the time, the same opportunity will never come back. If it will and is the same as is, then you must be one of the luckiest persons. But we all know that life is not only about luck. According to some experts, luck is only 10% of success. That means, 90% of success depends on people.
The greatest opportunity for the Government of the Philippines (GPH) and Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) to settle the right to self-determination struggle of the Bangsamoro people is after they signed the Comprehensive Agreement on the Bangsamoro (CAB) in March this year. This agreement is an honest compromise between independence that the MILF always desires and government preference for token autonomy as in the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM). We do not know of any other framework agreement or any time in the future that this rare chance of a breakthrough will avail itself: most likely not in the lifetime of the current leadership of the MILF nor within the term of office of the next president sitting in the Palace.
If the two Parties do not grab this opportunity or if they fail by their own making, the future might change dramatically, not in the liking of the MILF, because it has already adopted a policy of staying engaged in the path of peace. But there are other armed groups or even the enviers who feast on the failure of the peace efforts.
But even without wanting to wash their “dirty linen” in the open, people’s minds are already wandering to suspect the comments made by the Office of the President (OP) especially its legal team on the proposed Bangsamoro Basic Law (BBL) crafted by the MILF-led Bangsamoro Transition Commission (BTC) as causing the delay.
We do not want to confirm or deny this suspicion. The government and MILF have not opened much on this. The reason is not only for modesty sake, we are sure, but more importantly, it is the only right course of action.
Be this as it may, but what is threatening in this particular instance is the tightening timeline. The two parties have agreed to submit the BBL--- an agreed version, we believe --- to Congress on July 28 in time for the State-of-the-Nation Address (SONA) of President Benigno Aquino III. In a negotiation, even a disagreement on a single verb or word takes hours for the Parties to settle. How much more for a thick document such as the BBL?
Let us just hope for the best and pray that they overcome their differences. After all, they have no other option except to agree.
http://www.luwaran.com/index.php/editorial/item/1064-opportunity-knocks-only-once
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