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If the Bush regime can do it, why can’t the Sri Lankan Government …
From today’s Daily News:

Army Commander Lieutenant General Sarath Fonseka paid a special visit to the area yesterday as the LTTE violence gathered momentum in Vavuniya.

From today’s Daily Mirror:

The Defence Ministry yesterday warned that following a severe setback in the east, the Tigers were planning a major offensive against the security forces in the Wanni, to retain control of their cadres.

I guess NMAT knew the game plan all the time…
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Ravana said,

January 29, 2007 @ 10:53 am

Eh? If the Bush regime can do what?

Sanjana Hattotuwa said,

January 29, 2007 @ 11:30 am

Perhaps the author is referring to the doctrine of preemptive strikes as formulated and put into action by the incumbent US President?

Ravana said,

January 29, 2007 @ 1:51 pm

In that case, for the sake of greater accuracy, the author should have said, “If the U.S. can do it and utterly f*ck themselves in the ass, why can’t we?”

sittingnut said,

January 29, 2007 @ 3:15 pm

that comparison with an utterly different conflict and situation says a lot about some people’s disconnectedness from sri lankan reality.

quite enlightening too that they expect… nay wish, that army should fail like americans.
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imo military should continue with small scale focused operations to free sri lankans trapped under ltte oppression, that is government’s duty to its citizens. after all aren’t ppl freed from that oppression in the east better off now than before ?

sid said,

January 29, 2007 @ 9:30 pm

thanks sanjana for clarifying part of what i wanted to get across…

all of a sudden Fonseka is making a big deal about the killings that have been happening in the Wanni, and the paper’s are covering it.

there have been regular of killings / cullings in vavuniya for some time - it’s not something that has just started t happen.

remember the iraq’s weapons of mass destruction? that country has lost almost 3% of its population since the invasion by the so-called ‘peace loving’ nations, led by the US.

sittingnut said,

January 30, 2007 @ 2:18 pm

as before i am still mystified as to what “weapons of mass destruction” or anything in iraq has to do with vauniya. after all ltte’s terrorist weapons like suicide bombers and its killings there and everywhere, are very real.
it is pity that bc we are a poor country we cannot risk large scale operations all at once but have to play a stalemate cum small operations strategy (a fabian strategy) in order to get the better of the criminals. it is good that present army commander and others have face reality and are following that feasible and pragmatic strategy recognizing our limitations (here again it is quite unlike what americans did in iraq).

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