U.S. neoconservative like Bill Kristol are political advisers who perhaps are unfamiliar with the history going back to the 1950's and 1960's. Yes the Salazar's regime was also "hollow at the core" unable to do anything for Goa and Goans expect for empty promises. The same applied to his white or brown surrogates in colonial Goa.
Yet, how does examining this and the prior Portuguese colonial period help with, "A vital debate if we want to overcome the past, understand the present and prepare the future of Goa". Is this also a mumbo-jumbo of words and empty promises?:=)) Kind Regards, GL Constantino Xavier: "The way the cold war ended shaped the thinking of supporters of the Iraq war, including younger neoconservatives like William Kristol and Robert Kagan, in two ways. First, it seems to have created an expectation that all totalitarian regimes were hollow at the core and would crumble with a small push from outside. The model for this was Romania under the Ceausescus: once the wicked witch was dead, the munchkins would rise up and start singing joyously about their liberation." Romania 90's, Irak today ... Does the theory apply also to Goa in 1961, "a small push from outside and the munchkins since then singing joyously about their liberation"? A vital debate if we want to overcome the past, understand the present and prepare the future of Goa. Constantino Hermanns Xavier
