Comments on: More Defensive Offensives – coming soon…

By: sittingnut

sittingnut — Tue, 30 Jan 2007 09:00:03 +0000

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).

By: sid

sid — Mon, 29 Jan 2007 16:12:51 +0000

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.

By: sittingnut

sittingnut — Mon, 29 Jan 2007 09:57:00 +0000

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 ?

By: Ravana

Ravana — Mon, 29 Jan 2007 08:33:32 +0000

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?”

By: Sanjana Hattotuwa

Sanjana Hattotuwa — Mon, 29 Jan 2007 06:12:37 +0000

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

By: Ravana

Ravana — Mon, 29 Jan 2007 05:35:52 +0000

Eh? If the Bush regime can do what?