{"id":128989,"date":"2022-10-05T15:00:36","date_gmt":"2022-10-05T22:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=128989"},"modified":"2022-10-06T15:31:43","modified_gmt":"2022-10-06T22:31:43","slug":"geneva-foreign-minister-sabri-didnt-know-what-he-didnt-know%ef%bf%bc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2022\/10\/05\/geneva-foreign-minister-sabri-didnt-know-what-he-didnt-know%ef%bf%bc\/","title":{"rendered":"GENEVA: Foreign Minister Sabri \u2018Didn\u2019t Know What He Didn\u2019t Know\u2019\ufffc"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Daya Gamage\/USA<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p><strong>Dear Friends,<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=quQirzeSX0Y\" target=\"_blank\">\u0da2\u0dd2\u0db1\u0dd3\u0dc0\u0dcf\u0dc0\u0dbd \u0db8\u0ddc\u0d9a\u0daf \u0dc0\u0dd9\u0db1\u0dca\u0db1\u0dda? -\u0dc0\u0dd2\u0daf\u0dda\u0dc1 \u0d87\u0db8\u0dad\u0dd2 \u0db4\u0dd0\u0dc4\u0dd0\u0daf\u0dd2\u0dbd\u0dd2 \u0d9a\u0dbb\u0dba\u0dd2<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"\u0da2\u0dd2\u0db1\u0dd3\u0dc0\u0dcf\u0dc0\u0dbd \u0db8\u0ddc\u0d9a\u0daf \u0dc0\u0dd9\u0db1\u0dca\u0db1\u0dda? -\u0dc0\u0dd2\u0daf\u0dda\u0dc1 \u0d87\u0db8\u0dad\u0dd2 \u0db4\u0dd0\u0dc4\u0dd0\u0daf\u0dd2\u0dbd\u0dd2 \u0d9a\u0dbb\u0dba\u0dd2\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/quQirzeSX0Y?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>GO TO INFOLANKA AND LISTEN TO THIS 90-MINUTE MEDIA CONFERENCE IN GENEVA \u2013 I know you are very much interested, so, have patience and listen to this.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Socrates once said: The only wisdom is in knowing you know nothing\u201d. What does Socrates mean when he said this: <\/strong>Socrates was considered by many to be the wisest man in ancient Greece, his spoken words are still listened to and followed today. Meaning of \u2013 An unexamined life is not worth living. Through this statement, Socrates means that&nbsp;<strong>an unexamined human life is deprived of the meaning and purpose of existence<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Then, I\u2019ll quote you what former U.S. Defense Secretary \u2013 America\u2019s minister of defense \u2013 said, and refer to the last expression in the last two lines:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<em>There are known knowns. These are things we know that we know. There are known unknowns. That is to say, there are things that we know we don&#8217;t know. But there are also unknown unknowns. There are things we don&#8217;t know we don&#8217;t know\u201d.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I quote the above because \u2013 listening to this 90-minute media event \u2013 I strongly felt (1) Foreign Minister Ali Sabri \u2018did not know what he did not know\u2019 (2) Still with all these years \u2013 past two decades \u2013 Sri Lanka does not know how to combat global misinformation\/misinterpretations unleashed by both the Western Powers and separatist elements within the Tamil Diaspora (3) How Sri Lanka \u2013 insinuated by Foreign Minister Sabri \u2013 is damn scared of the United States and other Western powers to tell the truth while saying that the US and other Western Powers are still ignorant of&nbsp; the ground situation in Sri Lanka (4) Sabri told at this media event \u2013 referring to the Prevention of Terrorism Act \u2013 that the U.S. too has a similar one \u2013 the PATRIOT ACT \u2013 but has not done his homework to examine and study the obnoxious elements of the PATRIOT ACT because the feeling one get is that Sri Lanka is damn scared of these Western Powers, especially the U.S.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>PLEASE HAVE PATIENCE TO LISTEN TO THIS.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Daya Gamage\/USA<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Dilrook Says;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sabry is being reasonable. He was the minister of justice, finance and foreign affairs within a very short time and it seems he understands how they are all inter-related. Well done!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>UNHRC resolutions are only symbolic. So no use harming trade and other interests over them. Countries that vote against SL are SL&#8217;s most important export partners, top tourism dollar sources and largest weapons suppliers\/donors. They also hold key votes in IMF decisions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>UNHRC is driven by geopolitical interests, not human rights or humanitarian concerns. If not for this, they will find another excuse to bash SL.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is just a bi-annual distraction. SL should not change anything. Nothing happens even if SL doesn&#8217;t deliver on these resolutions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If they are serious, they will pass a resolution at the UN Security Council. They cannot because China will veto it. Until then SL should do nothing. Go for the circus and drop the matter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Daya Gamage\/USA Dear Friends, \u0da2\u0dd2\u0db1\u0dd3\u0dc0\u0dcf\u0dc0\u0dbd \u0db8\u0ddc\u0d9a\u0daf \u0dc0\u0dd9\u0db1\u0dca\u0db1\u0dda? -\u0dc0\u0dd2\u0daf\u0dda\u0dc1 \u0d87\u0db8\u0dad\u0dd2 \u0db4\u0dd0\u0dc4\u0dd0\u0daf\u0dd2\u0dbd\u0dd2 \u0d9a\u0dbb\u0dba\u0dd2 GO TO INFOLANKA AND LISTEN TO THIS 90-MINUTE MEDIA CONFERENCE IN GENEVA \u2013 I know you are very much interested, so, have patience and listen to this. Socrates once said: The only wisdom is in knowing you know nothing\u201d. What does Socrates mean when [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-128989","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128989","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=128989"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128989\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=128989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=128989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=128989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}