Dr Dayan J,

Observed you performance in defense of Sri Lanka at the UN. Your arguments were succinct and very telling. Congratulations. SL needs more people like you.

Yeah lot of them were air lifted as baby orphans during the pull out, thanks to the Napalms and other sorties US delivered they had no parents. Did I mention poisonous gas they used? What a hollow argument!

I am on your side, Mr Selvan. Let me give an analogy of the type of hypocrisy you speak of. There are many Sri-Lankans in the US of A, well settled and living the American dream; but for some unknown reason they seem to condemn our American life-style as a “corrupting” influence on their children. While enjoying their share of the American pie, they are dreaming – or were dreaming – of a separate homeland back in their old country Sri-Lanka. Why is that???? Why oh why????

As for the Cubans, yes, we have been trying to get rid of Fidel Castro since time began. To our consternation, North Americans are rushing off to Cuba to get medical treatment and for vacationing. Why is that???? Why oh why????

It is nice to know that some Sri-Lankans give us their unconditional support, despite our own people criticizing us. Thank you, Mr. Selvan.

Heshan makes some good observations about the Vietnam war,some of which can be applicable to the SL context.

As I see it even though the North Vietnamese prevailed it came at a great cost. In the end there are more Vietnamese in the U.S. than Americans in Vietnam. Same with Sri Lanka.

The GoSL spent a lot with help from India, China, U.S and Europe to defeat the LTTE. Above all the cost in human casualties, should be cause for mourning. But what did we have? Celebrations! That shows what this war was about in reality – revenge and irredentism. It was simply a racist war! After all the overwhelming casualties were Tamils, that made the war easier to wage. And what did we get? the media, overwhelmingly if not tacitly supporting this war as a humanitarian/liberation effort. (the Sunday Leader the only paper that tried balanced reporting, with deadly repercussions. The business community supporting this effort, with a future for exploitation for profit. The religious clergy, especially buddhist and some christian invoking blessing on the SL army.
And if people like Dr. Jayatilleke want to justify this, that would not be surprising. As he seems to love people like Fidel Castro and Stalin.

By the way there are more Cubans in American than the other way around. And there are more Russians in America than the other way around. The same goes for Sri Lanka. Why is that???? Why oh why????

“Pacifist jazz space”… weren’t you listening to what Jerome said, with feeling, before he sang Marvin Gaye’s What’s Going On?

Mount Lavinia was conformist jazz at its sad and tired worst… right down to the sand between the toes of the ‘pro-west fat cat elite.’

Pacifist jazz… maybe Pascal was right… he believed in the mind, that most capable space that would even allow us to kill, fornicate and amass power at an indiscrimate rate of knots… Just call it something else. Democracy? Love?Development?

Two antithetical ideas? Too simple for Pascal. He saw beyond, deep into us, recognised what the mind was capable of above all – and that is to pretend. Pretend most convincingly so that we forget we’re pretending.

So, do anything. Just make sure we call anything something else. Just make sure we believe what it is called.

Jerome’s Nature Boy was spectacular.

Sri Lanka is a tiny dot on the map with zero geopolitical significance. As much as you are inclined to exaggerate its status via conspiracy theories, it pales in comparison to India and Pakistan, the two nuclear powers of South Asia. Unfortunately, that is how things are likely to remain for some time to come, so carry on with your fantasies.