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5th Annual Konkan Fruit Fest
Promenade, D B Bandodkar Road, Panaji, Goa
16-18, May 2008
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Mario Goveia wrote:
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,355339,00.html
> The first responsibility of a nation is to protect its
> most vulnerable citizens. It is high time India shed
> its pious pacifist delusions and formally joined the
> global war on terror.
Mario,
The first responsibility of any society is to make sure that no citizen goes to
sleep starving or on the verge of starvation. Its next concerns should be about
providing adequate education, health facilities and housing. A country like
India can not stand on the international stage when everybody is aware
that large sections of its population goes to sleep, everyday, begging and on
the verge of starvation.
Once the Indian Govt has shown it is capable of resolving the country's
problems, it can take that success to the international stage. Trying to be a
pretender on the international stage now will only mean that the Indian
taxpayers money will be wasted abroad. I may add that that same money is
desperately needed for local infrastructure.
As for the supposed war on terror, the Taliban has just accepted a two week
truce with the Western troops. The poppy crop has to be harvested! A cartoon
in today's, The Globe and Mail, Toronto, captures this Monty Python moment in
all its deliciousness. Two western soldiers in Afghanistan are reading from a
newspaper the infamous words, "They will greet us as liberators and shower us
with flowers." Next to the two soldiers is a Taliban tossing poppies at the
soldiers.
This year, the Taliban expects to harvest its biggest crop ever of poppies. I
suspect the money from this crop will be used to buy weapons to fight the
invaders.
Mervyn3.0
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