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The American gift of defensive weapons to blunt the effort of the LTTE to fight Sinhalese army attacks on their civilians and survive, while blowing their horns about the need for a division of power, is a form of frontier justice that is typical of a courtiers mastery at double dealing.
Can this duel ploy be in the least feasible?
Are they so quick and deceiving in argument that they are determined to prove to the world that however they classify as terrorists must be eliminated to maintain world peace. They struggle to equate the LTTE with Al Queda whose widening nternational power they claim threatens the very existence of the United States?
Is this a form of global deception they are determined to preach to have the world follow their dictates with blind instinct as to what needs to be done to maintain universal acccord. It almost smells like a ghost of the old colonial policy of divide and control.
Does the government which Ambassador Blake represents relish the fantasy that centuries of racial distrust and resentment can be eliminated overnight with military might, rather than by a patient political resolution?
Does he also believe that by pretending to commit himself to political a solution, that the use of military might is the only way to achieve it?
It is apparent that both Rajapakse and Bush find the use of military might to be as alluring as honey is to bees. So fervent is their desire to reform the world, they are destined not to trust any opponent of their right to power readily.
It is as if the God of inspiration is blowing counter clockwise. The question is how soon their storms of outrage blow themselves out completely.
Their quest for unsought power, is more unsettling than exciting.
What they fail to comprehend is that their aim is to create a permanent fiefdom of discontent.
They are bent on creating a people living amidst an eridactible virus. It will permit the Sinhalese will to dominate and discriminate break itself against an impenetrable rock of distrust and resilience.
The U.S government ignores the Sinhalese constant determination to torment the Tamils not be be mere wives and mothers, but spinster parasites for life. They fail to realize that their objective is not the noble desire to grant Tamils equal rights but to frighten them into greater subservience.
The aim of the Sinhalese leadership is to prevent the Tamils from freeing themselves from constant Sinhalese attention and control.
What the Bush administration fails to perceive is that the wreckage of the past will not be overturned by an overnight military victory, a lesson they have not learned even from their miserable failures in Iraq, which they yet believe is solvable with their military push.
To twist a famous Churchillian phrase, “It harms them more than they harm it.” It is up to the LTTE to prove this to them.
Wakeley Paul
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