> As usual, mostly western commentators sitting on their high horses pointing and pontificating with no idea of local context or understanding.
Or maybe they do understand but simply do not agree with either the methods or the goal.
> First of all, Duterte was elected overwhelmingly with a clear mandate of using brute violence to clear out drug dealers.
This goes well beyond drug dealers (and even then it is not the way).
> He was clear about it and he is delivering on that mandate.
Could not care less about whether or not he was clear about it. Wrong is still wrong.
> He was clear about it and he is delivering on that mandate. I have to accept, he has made a PR error by not calling them terrorists.
Hard to tell if you're sarcastic or not, going on the assumption that you're not.
> The fact is, you do not get radical progress pandering to western styled hypocritical democracy or "human rights".
No, you'll get progress by giving everybody a license to go out and kill anybody they don't like on a pretext. That's going to make life so much better.
> It's the reality. A harsh one. Of course, I will not be so "logical" if I happen to be at the receiving end of such needed reform. But hey.. it's what life is.
It need not be. And if you're already hedging your position then I guess you too understand that this is not a solution, only more trouble.
> I am speaking like a man living in a country where some not so nice things will be needed to be done if we are going to ever progress.
Mass murder of citizens is never 'progress'. Especially not if the context is a corrupt police force that makes other avenues less likely to work. Then you go and fix the police force, you don't hand out a 'license to kill' to the population at large.