“Whoever shoots first, dies second”. That summarizes “mutual assured destruction”, the 1960’s doctrine on nuclear annihilation. “Mad” argues that populations are safest when the other side faces retaliatory obliteration.
Local politics has scaled-down versions of “Mad”. The strike-counterstrike of privileged speeches, by Senators Panfilo Lacson and Jinggoy Estrada, guaranteed “mutual assured destruction”, predicted Senator Miriam Santiago.
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