[Goanet] SAFE ROADS IS PARAMOUNT

[Aires Rodrigues]

As soon as the monsoons subside the government must on a top priority
attend to the roads across Goa which are in an extremely pathetic and
critical state. It’s potholes and craters galore. A visitor to our shores
may well wonder if they have landed in Goa or on the moon!

The alarming number of stray cattle on the roads all over is a matter of
great concern so also the grave menace of stray dogs which today has
reached alarming levels is also very worrisome.

The public have the right to expect our roads and streets to be free from
the nuisance of potholes, stray cattle and stray dogs. The government needs
to tackle this issue urgently so that people can walk on the streets and
travel on the roads without fear or hindrance.

Does the government need to be reminded that the Bombay High Court has
already ruled that good and safe motorable roads is our fundamental right?
Road safety is of paramount importance. The government has a bounden duty
to serve and protect the lives of its citizens.

Adv. Aires Rodrigues

C/G-2, Shopping Complex

Ribandar Retreat

Ribandar – Goa – 403006

Mobile No: 9822684372

Office Tel  No: (0832) 2444012

Email: airesrodrigu...@gmail.com



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[Goanet] Peacefully Connected by GODSHE Made in Zanzibar and Now Linked to the Four Corners of Our Planet EARTH

[Adolfo Mascarenhas]

Jo in Message 7  Dated : Fri, 20 Aug 2021 15:21:14 + (UTC) Message-ID: <
1456445992.351473.1629472874...@mail.yahoo.com>….I was surprised that you
were from Zanzibar. On Wed 18th. August 2021 I went to the years Mass for
Mrs Maria Conceicao Basilia De Almeida.  I was not in Dar when she died I
was in the Lockdown I Goa. So on Wednesday I met her son, grandchildren etc
etc. The twenty or so families with Zanzibar connection knew my Father in
Law, LCM Rodrigues, in his spare time, (he worked in the Cable and Wireless
as an Operator) he tutored children in Maths or taught them violin, My late
wife Prof Ophelia passed to her everlasting home in 2017.  When she retired
from the UDSM, she was involved in even more exciting work as the head of
an ICT Project for development in Kenya Uganda, Tanzania  and in Rwanda and
funded by IDRC of Canada. Several books came out, including a talk in the
Harvard Business School etc



Lets keep in touch …..Zanzibar was the starting point for most Goans who
then spread to  the mainland …..Jo I have a feeling I either met you or
corresponded …..



Keep safe and God Bless



Grandolfo

In Makongo Juu

Outskirts of Dar es Salaam

Re: [Goanet] [Goanet-News] Godshe/Atol Recipe | How to make Godshe | Goan Cuisine | Cooking Addiction Goa.

[Jo]

 My mom made it for us, for teatime, also, in our younger days, and then for 
the grandkids  after she joined  my siblings and me in the US. Living in 
Chicago we were able to get the jaggery. So it was like she made it in 
Zanzibar. My dear mom’s been gone 20 years now and no one has made this since. 
Thank you, Frederick, for sharing  the recipe. Definitely will try this comfort 
food and relive those warm memories of teatime in Zanzibar..
Joanita 

Sent from Yahoo Mail for iPhone


On Thursday, August 19, 2021, 5:17 PM, Frederick Noronha 
 wrote:

Godshe reminds me of my good old school days when i would come back home
for tea wondering what mother would have made to gobble up. Godshe was one
of those finest tea time surprises she had in store. Godshe is like payasam
to a certain extent except it does not have dry fruits at all, its
sweetness is derived from the unique pyramid shaped goan palm jaggery.
Recipe link : https://youtu.be/66jTMJ8EIJc
 Split chickpeas - 250
gms (1 cup) Goan Rice - 250 gms (1 cup) Palm jaggery - 100 gms Sugarcane
jaggery - 100 gms Cardamom powder 2 tsp or 2 turmeric leaves Salt 1 tsp or
as per your taste Thick coconut milk - 600 ml ( 2 1/2 cup)
https://youtu.be/66jTMJ8EIJc

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[Goanet] {Dilip's essays} Genius at the bottom of the sea

[Dilip D'Souza]

August 20

For as long as I can remember, I've been enchanted by ancient Greek history
and mythology, and how they seem entwined. I mean, did Theseus actually
battle that Minotaur? Was there really a ten year Trojan War sparked by
Paris abducting Helen and ending with a huge wooden horse?

And then there's the remarkable computer that was found at the bottom of
the sea. Now that's certainly an artifact of real human ingenuity. And part
of the story is the efforts of modern scientists to recreate it. It's
called the Antikythera mechanism and my mathematics column in Mint today
(Aug 20) tells you the story. Genius at the bottom of the sea,
https://www.livemint.com/opinion/columns/genius-at-the-bottom-of-the-sea-11629392600599.html

Hope you like it. Tell me.

cheers,
dilip

PS: There's a fascinating half-hour video that explains the UCL paper I
mention in the article, showing how the team constructed the model. An
absolute treat to watch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UDFaAjjWzt8

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Genius at the bottom of the sea


Somewhere between 70 and 60 BCE, a Roman cargo ship was sailing from
somewhere on the coast of Anatolia in modern Turkey to Rome. We don't know
where on Anatolia it started from. But wherever it was, if you look at a
map, you'll see that the ship would first have had to thread its way
through the innumerable islands of Greece, strewn across the Aegean Sea
like so many pearls. Then it would have to round the Pelepponese peninsula
and cross the Ionian Sea. After that, through the Strait of Messina that
separates the boot of Italy from Sicily. Finally, some 800km northwest
through the Tyrrhenian Sea, homeward bound into Rome.

The point being, this was a long and perilous voyage. This particular ship
didn't make it. Probably hit by a storm, it sank off the coast of the
little island of Antikythera, about halfway between Crete and the long
fingers of the Pelepponese. Ironically, this island was last piece of land
it would have had to negotiate before Messina.

In 1900, a boat filled with sponge divers from the island of Symi was in
the same waters. A storm hit them too, and while this boat didn't sink, the
divers were forced to take shelter on Antikythera. The next day, with the
storm having abated, they decided not to head home to Symi - some 400 km
east - right away. Instead, they went diving. To their astonishment, they
found this 2000 year-old shipwreck about 55m below the surface, off
Antikythera's Point Glyphadia.

Helped by the Greek Navy over the next several months, the divers brought
up several objects from the shipwreck: pottery, bottles, coins, statues.
These suggested that the ship was filled with treasure looted from various
conquered lands, meant to feature in a triumph that Julius Caesar was
planning.

They also brought up a lump of bronze and wood. Over the centuries, it had
got so badly worn and layered over with bottom-of-the-sea accretions that
nobody paid it much attention for two more years. But when scientists
started to examine it and chisel away the corrosion, there was a surprise.
They found a gear wheel buried in the lump.

Imagine that. A gear is something that, even today, we associate with
relatively modern, relatively complex machinery. What was it doing on this
ship from two millennia ago?

Nobody paid the object much more attention for another 50 years. In 1951, a
history professor at Yale University, Derek de Solla Price, started
examining it - and a total of 82 fragments that together made up what's
thought to be only a third of the original machine. Two decades later, he
reported his findings in a paper titled "Gears from the Greeks. The
Antikythera Mechanism: A Calendar Computer from circa 80 BC." (Transactions
of the American Philosophical Society, November 1974).

That’s right, a machine: and Price called it a "mechanism", a "computer".
In fact, the Antikythera mechanism is now often referred to as the world's
oldest-known computer. It has an astonishingly intricate system of gears -
30 bronze wheels - that were clearly designed for calendar computations,
and over 19 years. It could tell you where in the sky to find the Moon and
Sun and planets. It could tell you the phases of the Moon. It could even
predict eclipses.

How did it do all this?

A large dial on the front had two concentric scales. One marked off the
year's 365 days, labelling the 12 months. The other showed the 360 degrees
in a circle and marked out the zodiac's 12 signs. Set up to rotate around
this dial were what had to be pointers that would tell the date and the
positions of the Sun and Moon on that date. It also indicated the positions
in the sky of the then-known five planets, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter
and Saturn. There was a small ball painted silver and black. As it
revolved, it showed the phases of the Moon.

The back had two dials. One had a calendar for 235 months, a little more
than 19 years. Why 235? Because after that many months, the pattern of new
Moons in the year repeats

[Goanet] Schedule for Saturday 21st August 2021

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Schedule for Saturday 21st  August 2021

12:00 AM
Rosary - Joyful Mysteries

12:23 AM
Bhieum naka - Talk by Victor Mascarenhas

12:46 AM
Tell me a Story - Episode  10 - Tower of Babel

12:54 AM
Mando on Aldona - Nelson and Daneca Da Cruz

12:58 AM
Poem - Sopnam by Michael Koola

1:00 AM
Mass in Konkani for  Thursday

2:10 AM
Saibinnichi Ruzai - Sontosache Mister

2:36 AM
Devacha Utor - Titak - Avesvor 1 - Vachpi Orlando D'Souza

2:43 AM
Ximpientlim Motiam - Bhag  155  - Gaddi Ponkchor - Fr Pratap Naik sj

2:53 AM
Pastoral Letter 2021-22- Talk in English - Fr Mariano D'Costa

3:13 AM
What's Cooking - Episode 13

3:48 AM
Way of the Cross -Chorao Parish

4:31 AM
Hymns -Santa Cruz H.S.S. , S. Cruz

4:38 AM
Consecration of women living in the world - Dr Sarita Nazarth

5:04 AM
Xapai - Xamaichem Magnnem

5:06 AM
Praise & Worship - Magno Menezes - SJVSRC Old Goa

5:22 AM
Our Father - French

5:25 AM
InstrumentaL Music - Shanaya Carvalho and Joshua Fernandes - 3rd Anniv

5:38 AM
Marian Reflections -1 -  DCC

6:03 AM
Literally Goa  -  Lourdes Bravo Da Costa Rodrigues  interviewed by
Frederick Noronha

6:32 AM
Hymn - Sacred Heart - Brian Colaco

6:36 AM
DYC Promo

6:41 AM
Role of St Joseph - Fr John Peter

6:47 AM
Hymn - All  over the world, the Spirit is moving -  Fr Seville Antao
OFM(Cap)

6:49 AM
Make Goa a Zero Waste State - Gayatri Parsekar , SFX School. Siolim

6:57 AM
Sokalchem Magnnem  -  Bhagevont

7:00 AM
Mass from Sancoale

7:45 AM
Morning Prayer  -  Men and Women Saints

7:50 AM
Pastoral Letter 2021-22- Talk in English - Fr Mariano D'Costa

8:10 AM
Devacha Utor - Titak - Avesvor 1 - Vachpi Orlando D'Souza

8:17 AM
Assumption of Mary into Glory - Fr Nigel Alphonso sj

8:37 AM
Sonvsarachim gulam zaina zaunk zagrut ravat - Fr Hermogenes Fernandes

9:03 AM
Discipleship and Evangelization - Dr SIlvia Noronha

9:39 AM
Bhurgeanchem magnnem aplea avoi-bapaik

9:43 AM
Songs - Sonia Shirsat - 3rd Anniv

10:00 AM
Street Providence - Interview by Basil Fernandes

10:32 AM
Tell Me a Story  - Eps 36 - Moses Leaves Egypt

10:39 AM
Charisms - Mary Healy

11:16 AM
Intercessions - English

11:30 AM
Mass from Panjim Church 1st Death Anniv

12:20 PM
Holy Spirit - Talk by Godfrey Pereira

12:44 PM
DYC Promo

12:48 PM
53rd Mando Festival - Amchem Diaz, Assolna - Original

1:01 PM
Mon Bodlop - Talk by Orlando D'Souza

1:28 PM
Psalm 84 - Read by Alfwold Silveira

1:34 PM
Rosary of St Joseph Vaz

1:56 PM
Angelus - English

1:58 PM
Tagore's (and our) prayer for India - Nicholas D'Souza

2:24 PM
Hymn - Yeshu Ki Jai Ho - Savina & Leon Gonsalves

2:30 PM
Bible Project - Gospel of Luke - Ch 1 - 2

2:35 PM
Feast of Assumption - Daughters of St Paul

3:00 PM
Blessed to have a Royal Mother - Maria Ana da Costa

3:25 PM
Magnificat (English)

3:30 PM
Divine Mercy - English 3

3:50 PM
Ximpientlim Motiam - Bhag  155  - Gaddi Ponkchor - Fr Pratap Naik sj

4:00 PM
Rosary - Joyful Mysteries

4:25 PM
Prayer for Healing from Cancer

4:30 PM
Senior Citizens Exercises - 4

5:00 PM
Praise and Worship led by Eliot Gonsalves

5:29 PM
Bhogsonnem - Talk by Filu Corneiro

5:58 PM
Our Father - Spanish

6:00 PM
Aimorechen Magnnem

6:03 PM
InstrumentaL Music - Shanaya Carvalho and Joshua Fernandes - 3rd Anniv

6:18 PM
Intercessions - Konkani

6:30 PM
Mass from Sancoale

7:15 PM
Mother Mary - Talk by Fr Eremito Rebelo

7:27 PM
Bhagevont Zuze Vazache mozotin Bhurgeancher Magnnem

7:30 PM
Saibinnichi Ruzai - Sontosache Mister

7:56 PM
Prayer : Benedictus

8:00 PM
Protestant ani Katolik - Talk by Adv F.E. Noronha

8:30 PM
Moni-protixtta rakhun dorvrum-is - Fr Henry Falcao

9:00 PM
Adoration 7 - St Anthony Church, Siolim

9:29 PM
Ratchem Magnem

9:46 PM
Devacha Utor - Titak - Avesvor 2 - Vachpi Orlando D'Souza

9:51 PM
Concert : AD 2019 Part 2

10:25 PM
On the Third Day - Eps 9 - Bonsai - Daniel D'Souza and Miguel Braganza

11:01 PM
Hymn - Bapa Mhojea - Fr Glen D'Silva sfx

11:09 PM
Repentance - Talk by Jorim Mendonca

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[Goanet] Youthopia - Chriselle Fernandes interviewed by Lucius De Almeida

[Frederick Noronha]

Teenage musician from Goa
https://youtu.be/qJ50Bc7i5Qo
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Re: [Goanet] Provocation by Indian muslims

[Frederick Noronha]

Don't know who you saw and how many of these types are around... There are
supporters of fanaticism in every community (and even in secular,
non-religious, political groups). But, sir, wouldn't it be unfair to
condemn a community of say 204 million based on the extremism of a few? The
media is unfortunately continually doing this too, and often makes up our
mind for us. FN

On Fri, 20 Aug 2021 at 16:14, Nelson Lopes  wrote:

> Indian muslims provocative  statements
>
> Well placed  , educated, poets , politicians muslim  openly congratulate
> and are rejoicing over Taliban Victory
> The  Afghan Nationals are escaping in drones at risks to personal life is
> an indication of Taliban terror  as an instrument of subjugation.
> The plight of women freedom, abuse of  human rights   has received  world
> condemnation
> Trade with India is frozen after billions poured in development
> projects.India  as a Nation is adopting cautious approach of watch and
> wait.These misguided , immature muslims  are expressing  openly contrary
> to  National sentiment
> These behaviours are unaccepted as Indian Nationals with  doubtful
> allegiance  and need to be condemned  and strictly acted upon
> In the past too in cricket victories by Pakistan are loudly celebrated  by
> Indian muslims.
> In most terror  acts the individuals largely belong to this community both
> in India and abroad
> Muslims cry foul about treatment to them as second class citizens and being
> treated as  outcasts.
> If National interests  are not  there  PRIME. concerns then they should,
> relicate, leave the country
> Any backlash  that may follow is invited by their  own volition
> Nelson LopesChinchinim 9850926276
>


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[Goanet] DOES GOVT IGNORES NEWS FROM NEWSPAPERS?

[Stephen Dias]

I saw a post in our NIO VETERANS group an elephant uprooting a huge tree
through a video clip.
I feel we may need such elephants to uproot certain weak trees in Goa
especially in Campal which are posing danger to the public and most of the
times our Forest dept and CCP doesn't exercise their powers.
 See in the attached photo a old tree fallen down and the compound wall
totally damaged which  belongs to Foodland restaurant at Miramar and it is
under Tourism dept. Since this tree was very weak I had in the beginning
personally informed the Foodland office staff to take action. Unfortunately
until today 20th Aug 2021 no action has been taken . ( Photo attached).
What is the use of publishing in newspapers when the authotities ignores
such important news?
What  is seen now is that our Miramar beach behind Pergola upto a kilometre
strech, the GSIDC has transformed this beach front side into a recreational
hub and there are two Samadhi in the line.

Stephen Dias
Dona Paula
20.8.2021
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[Goanet] Who Liberated or Annexed Portugal and Who Annexed or Liberated Goa ...Some new dimensions of the Same Coin.

[Bernado Colaco]

 Shri Datuk Seri Mascarenhas I am  not to sure if you are aware that those 
people returning from Africa did not live in Moti Nagar. Also those in Mumbai 
have connections in Goa, therefore all who want to return  their motherland are 
welcome.
BC-


Several readers of Goanet have given their views whether Goa was
<<<>>> or <<>>> Obviously those Goans who for some
strange reasons do not believe that Goa is part of a subcontinent called
INDIA.  Such Goans spread all over  from U the K to USA Canada, Australia
and even East Africa  people believe that Goa was Annexed.  Probably a very
slight  majority  mostly living I n Goa and India and into  Pakistan
believe they were LIBERATED. These Goans rationalized what happened sixty
years ago. Can you imagine the chaos if all thses Goans spread all over
India from Mumbai to the Nicobar and Rawalpindi were unceremoniously sent
back to Goa with only their clothings they wore?.alll assents accumulated
for Generation to remain in Goa.

I***  

[Goanet] Listen & Learn Portuguese (Dover)

[Frederick Noronha]

https://archive.org/details/lp_listen-learn-portuguese_alexander-r-prista-paul-d-holtzman/disc1/01.01.+Band+1.+Social+Conversation.mp3


And you can join a Portuguese chat group via WhatsApp by sending a message
saying ADD LUSO CHAT PL to +91-9822122436.
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Re: [Goanet] Provocation by Indian muslims

[Joao Barros-Pereira]

goans also do the same, don't we?

On 8/20/21, Nelson Lopes  wrote:
> Indian muslims provocative  statements
>
> Well placed  , educated, poets , politicians muslim  openly congratulate
> and are rejoicing over Taliban Victory
> The  Afghan Nationals are escaping in drones at risks to personal life is
> an indication of Taliban terror  as an instrument of subjugation.
> The plight of women freedom, abuse of  human rights   has received  world
> condemnation
> Trade with India is frozen after billions poured in development
> projects.India  as a Nation is adopting cautious approach of watch and
> wait.These misguided , immature muslims  are expressing  openly contrary
> to  National sentiment
> These behaviours are unaccepted as Indian Nationals with  doubtful
> allegiance  and need to be condemned  and strictly acted upon
> In the past too in cricket victories by Pakistan are loudly celebrated  by
> Indian muslims.
> In most terror  acts the individuals largely belong to this community both
> in India and abroad
> Muslims cry foul about treatment to them as second class citizens and being
> treated as  outcasts.
> If National interests  are not  there  PRIME. concerns then they should,
> relicate, leave the country
> Any backlash  that may follow is invited by their  own volition
> Nelson LopesChinchinim 9850926276
>

[Goanet] Visit... this bookshop in Panjim

[Frederick Noronha]

https://youtu.be/gjn2CjsuDqo
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Re: [Goanet] Ku Klux Klan - The secret history of the KKK (in two parts) | DW Documentary

[Mervyn Lobo]

 This has something to do with Goa? Or Goanet or Goans?
Mervyn


On Thursday, August 19, 2021, 02:48:19 p.m. CDT, Frederick Noronha 
 wrote:  
 
 https://youtu.be/aDCyjdHPPtI
https://youtu.be/x99pzn1dAWc

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[Goanet] Provocation by Indian muslims

[Nelson Lopes]

Indian muslims provocative  statements

Well placed  , educated, poets , politicians muslim  openly congratulate
and are rejoicing over Taliban Victory
The  Afghan Nationals are escaping in drones at risks to personal life is
an indication of Taliban terror  as an instrument of subjugation.
The plight of women freedom, abuse of  human rights   has received  world
condemnation
Trade with India is frozen after billions poured in development
projects.India  as a Nation is adopting cautious approach of watch and
wait.These misguided , immature muslims  are expressing  openly contrary
to  National sentiment
These behaviours are unaccepted as Indian Nationals with  doubtful
allegiance  and need to be condemned  and strictly acted upon
In the past too in cricket victories by Pakistan are loudly celebrated  by
Indian muslims.
In most terror  acts the individuals largely belong to this community both
in India and abroad
Muslims cry foul about treatment to them as second class citizens and being
treated as  outcasts.
If National interests  are not  there  PRIME. concerns then they should,
relicate, leave the country
Any backlash  that may follow is invited by their  own volition
Nelson LopesChinchinim 9850926276

[Goanet] Falling Hu(man)ity

[V M]

https://www.dhakatribune.com/opinion/op-ed/2021/08/20/op-ed-falling-hu-man-ity

Captured twenty years apart, two viscerally shocking images [SEE
ATTACHMENT] from New York City and Kabul come together to tell one of the
dominant stories of our interlinked and increasingly calamitous 21st
century.

The first person to make that explicit connection was the Twitter user
@qaummunist on August 16, just after hordes of desperate Afghans attempted
to clamber onboard an already moving American C-17 Globemaster transport
aircraft.

The pilots kept going, and as their plane angled into the sky two men were
seen plunging to their deaths (they had probably clung to the wheels).

@aummunist’s real name is Syed Aalim Akhtar. He’s a 25-year-old PhD
candidate in English at Jawaharlal Nehru University in New Delhi (with
roots in Amroha, in Uttar Pradesh).

Asked how he came to that brilliant insight in the veritable blink of an
eye, Akhtar told me “I have worked on 9/11 literature as part of my
research, focussed particularly on the visuality associated with the World
Trade Centre towers.” Thus, when he saw the footage from Kabul, “the
connection was immediate.”

In the moment, Akhtar posted an image of the men plummeting from the
American plane next to Richard Drew’s famous “Falling Man” photograph from
the 9/11 attack on the World Trade Centre, explaining that “the two visuals
[are] connected in history, violence, politics.”

Akhtar added further thoughts (I have retained his no-capitals syntax) -
“there is something very eerie in these two images in the way in which they
connect through a ‘free fall’. both were invisible to the naked eye, except
as indistinguishable dots. they gained human recognition only when they
crashed against the ground with a loud thud.”

Finally, “modernity’s obsession with speed attains its climax in new york
and kabul. one feels like an endless repetition of another – skies,
heights, free falls, and indistinguishable dots of humanity. the modern
maxim of one who gains speed gains territory is overturned.”

There’s another aspect to what happened. In 2011, the “Falling Man” images
were widely understood as disrespectful. The hometown New York Times
published one on September 12, and never again. The photographs became not
exactly forbidden, but generally off-limits. No such compunctions will
remain after Kabul.

Of course, that is not the only culture shift after the American haste to
lift-off from Afghanistan, leaving billions of dollars in armaments, and
20,000 of their own citizens to the custody of the Taliban.

Also laid bare is the rotten core of western adventurism in Afghanistan,
from the pipelines of cash that built up the mujahideen who eventually
became the Taliban, to the absurdly named Operation Enduring Freedom,
launched precisely 20 years ago in August 2011.

Back then, a huge range of countries gathered to abet the American bombing
campaign (it took much longer to put troops on the ground). Bangladesh
rallied: no troops, but use of its ports and airports. India offered
equipment (helicopters to the Northern Alliance), intelligence and
infrastructure.

At that time, George W. Bush declared, “We are supported by the collective
will of the world. We defend not only our precious freedoms, but also the
freedom of people everywhere to live and raise their children free from
fear. We will not waver; we will not tire; we will not falter; and we will
not fail.”

While that notably empty suit is often correctly derided as the worst
American president, even below the boorishly incompetent Donald Trump, it
was the prematurely sainted Joe Biden who dropped the other shoe this week.

 “Our mission in Afghanistan was never supposed to have been nation
building,” he said. “It was never supposed to be creating a unified,
centralized democracy. We gave them every chance to determine their own
future.  What we could not provide them was the will to fight for that
future.”

This is extraordinarily cynical doublespeak, coming from an administration
that – along with its predecessors – propped up an obviously untenable and
atrociously corrupt regime. Even its own President wouldn’t fight for it,
as we now know, after Ashraf Ghani showed up in the UAE (allegedly toting
$169 million dollars in purloined state funds).

Here, it’s vital to pay attention to commentators like America’s own Howard
French, the veteran foreign correspondent and author, whose August 18
analysis in *World Politics Review* is entitled “Afghanistan is a Lesson in
Humility.”

French says “the narrative about the Afghans being unwilling to fight is
wrong. During their two decades of combat in cooperation with the United
States, Afghan security forces lost 60,000 men, an order of magnitude
greater than the death toll among allied Western forces.” Instead, this
failure “was about the rottenness of Afghan elites, and their utter
disconnectedness from the lives of ordinary people.”

With the experience of decades covering interventionis