A FEW friends abroad, mostly scholars and Philippine watchers, emailed me last week to ask: 'Are things there getting really bad?' They were mainly referring to National Security Adviser Eduardo Año's screaming statement, bannered by several media outlets: 'Any secession move to be met with force.'

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