The argument against the Navy at Dabolim, is not an argument against the Navy in Goa, hence the phrase "for those who keep insisting that the Navy has no *strategic* role to play from Goa" is a red herring and straw man. Additionally, the Navy's refusal to let a few worshippers at a Church once a year on a Feast day, brings the Navy's supposed defense of freedom and democracy into question. Exactly whose freedom and democracy is it defending if citizens cannot exercise their constitutional rights?
Regards, George --- gilbert menezes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > For those who keep insisting that the Navy has no *strategic* role to > play from Goa, here is an example of just that. The targets in > question were operating, in one case, near the gulf of aden, and in > the other case near south Africa, thosands of miles away from our home > bases. What the article hasn't mentioned is that it is the Navys > constant peacetime role to be prepared for war, and to gather as much > information about our prospective enemies.
