Hi Mario,
NewsInsight is a Public Affairs Magazine. It's been
quite some years that we subscribe it.
The posting was an editorial in there.
You may obtain a copy at the following addresses:
Editorial office: Newsinsight.net , 5-G Vandhna
Building,
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Glad to be of assistance.
There are lots of facts in the subject essay.
AlmeidaG(ji)
Associate, www.goa-world.com
Moderator - Gulf-Goans e-Newsletter (since 1994)
--- Mario Goveia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Who wrote this excellent essay?
> >
> --- "Goa's Pride Goa-World.Com"
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2006 04:06:56 -0700 (PDT)
> > From: "Goa's Pride Goa-World.Com"
> > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > To: [email protected]
> > Subject: [Goanet] We, you and I, have become
> cannon
> > fodder for terrorists.
> >
> > We, you and I, have become cannon fodder for
> > terrorists.
> >
> > By now, we have become predictable in our
> responses
> > to
> > terrorist outrages, and it is no different with
> the
> > Bombay serial bombings, which have killed nearly
> two
> > hundred people since yesterday, and injured more
> > than
> > three times the number.
> >
> > The media leads the act in playing down the
> > terrorist
> > attack, by painting up a perfectly fraudulent
> > picture
> > of a city hurtling back to normalcy within hours
> if
> > not minutes, and the more pseudo-secular,
> > pseudo-liberal of the papers come out with
> > absolutely
> > crummy headlines. Just as the politicians ordered.
> > When has tearing into the authorities for their
> > inability to preempt such terrorist acts become
> > non-secular? And why mustnt the horror of it be
> > fully
> > published or telecast, without attempting to make
> it
> > a
> > routine violent incident, no more worse than a
> train
> > disaster or airplane crash? Although with airplane
> > crashes probably, Indias nouveau media would go
> > aggressive. Those who get bombed in trains, or
> while
> > shopping happily on Diwali eve, or sightseeing
> > around
> > Srinagar, are obviously lesser people, to become
> > statistics at the soonest. It is nauseating.
> >
> > Followed by the media, comes the charade of the
> > political establishment. The President and the
> PMs
> > condolences are dutifully reproduced, as though
> they
> > can speak to the contrary, Sonia Gandhi, after
> > expressing the routine commiseration, dashes off
> to
> > the tragedy site, if the death toll is high enough
> > to
> > give her political mileage. Once she lands, of
> > course
> > everybody forgets the relief work and serves her,
> > from
> > the chief minister down. Incidentally, we have a
> > grotesquely incompetent Maharashtra CM, Vilasrao
> > Deshmukh, under his charge, Bombay shuts down in
> two
> > consecutive monsoons, a record number of farmers
> > nearly seven hundred, would you believe it?
> commit
> > suicide in Vidharba, he and his officials
> thoroughly
> > and cynically mislead the PM when he visits there,
> > and
> > now this catastrophe.
> >
> > Followed by these worthies and the condolences and
> > ill-timed visits, condolences pour from abroad.
> > Previously, the occasions were probably famine
> > deaths,
> > or natural disasters, tsunami and their lesser
> > cousins, or assassinations, now, they are
> terrorist
> > attacks. We sort of get a grim pleasure, a
> > masochistic
> > pleasure, in publishing these condolences, from
> the
> > US
> > and the rest, as if almost glad that they have
> > remembered us, even if at a time of the wanton
> > massacre of our people. Not to forget, because it
> is
> > politically convenient now, Pakistan wires in its
> > own
> > sorry message, while congratulating whoever
> > masterminded the terrorism on their side, and it
> > looks
> > a clear giveaway on the Lashkar-e-Toiba.
> >
> > Less publicly, the agency responsible for
> > counter-terrorism, the IB, sends its fattened,
> > over-the-hill, retiring officials to make the
> > investigations, and in a couple of days, their
> > consolidated report will be read by the PM and
> > dumped. And, meanwhile, since scapegoats have to
> be
> > found, a committee has been set up, our PM, ever
> an
> > official, loving committees, and this will seek to
> > neatly place the blame on the junior partner in
> the
> > Maharashtra government, the NCP, which has the
> home
> > portfolio. Not directly, but through leaks to the
> > press, all attempts would be made to divert
> > attention
> > for intelligence failure from the Congress-led
> > Central
> > government and the Congress-led Maharashtra
> > government.
> >
> > In about a week, the Bombay blasts would be
> > forgotten
> > until another serial explosion rocks the
> country.
> >
> > History repeating itself as farce.
> >
> > We have become a soft state, and our rapid
> > regression
> > should bring us in serious competition with
> Pakistan
> > and the other failed states in some years. The
> > Bombay
> > blasts are the result of systems failure, and the
> > entire political-government establishment at the
> > Centre and in Maharashtra must take blame, and not
> > one
> > or two individuals, although they may happen to be
> > in
> > the line of fire.
> >
> > While at some level, it is the obvious failure of
> > the
> > Centre and the state governments, the PM and CM,
> and
> > the Central and Maharashtra home ministers, the
> rot
> > lies deeper. Officials say prime minister Manmohan
> > Singh takes more interest in intelligence matters
> > than
> > his predecessor, A.B.Vajpayee, who left them to
> his
> > principal secretary and national security advisor
> > (NSA), Brajesh Mishra. Mishra was an official, and
> > like most officials, he could not think more than
> > two
> > days into the future. Vajpayee, a politician, on
> the
> > rare occasions he pursued security issues, gave
> > visionary direction.
> >
> > Manmohan Singhs problem is that though he is the
> > PM,
> > he remains an official, and therefore is able to
> add
> > little to intelligence briefs. His home minister,
> > Shivraj Patil, though a politician, is not attuned
> > to
> > his portfolio, he would be a fit where personal
> > intelligence is not a consideration, and action is
> > discouraged. Now why do we have a PM who is weak
> > because he is not a politician, and therefore
> lacks
> > insight? Because Sonia Gandhi wants him there, she
> > wants a weak PM. And just in case the PM wants a
> > half-decent home minister, who would say no? The
> > Congress president, of course. So if you have a
> > collapsing state, a soft Centre making way for a
> > soft
> > state, well, you know whom to blame.
> >
> > And now, the Intelligence Bureau is infected by
> this
> > ever-growing softness, and that can be traced to
> > another Sonia fixture in the PMO, the PMs
> national
> > security advisor, M.K.Narayanan. If Narayanan were
> > to
> > be NSA alone, that would be tolerable, although he
> > neither understands strategic issues nor foreign
> > relations, but he also functions as Sonia Gandhis
> > eyes and ears. From his official perch, he tasks
> the
> > IB with such political intelligence demands,
> spying
>
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