By Mortz C.
Ortigoza
A
graduate of the elite United States Military Academy and former Philippine
president did not believe that the brinkmanship between the United States and
China at the Spratly Islands will result to war.
Former President
Fidel V. Ramos said the U.S and China need not plunge themselves to war because
it would be mutually assured destruction for them and to the U.S allies in the
East Asia Region.
“You visit your homework. I wrote about this since 12 years ago.
In the 21st Century you don’t talked about the 19th or 20th
Century. Nobody wants war especially World War III because of the massive
destruction and the thermal radiation wave of modern weapons,” he stressed to Northern Watch when he graced the inauguration
of the satellite office of the Department of Foreign Affairs in Calasiao, Pangasinan.
Ramos cited an
instance that the latest hydrogen bomb is 5000 times more lethal than the atom
bomb dropped by the B-29 Super Fortress bombers at Nagasaki and Hiroshima in Japan on August 1945.
“You don’t need a B-29, you just pressed the button. But the U.S
study says counter-strike. Somebody has to push the button with the
coordination of the 38th Parallel. With the strike and counter
strike all of a sudden all that will disappear,” Ramos, who is known as FVR, said last Sunday.