USA, UK and France in the persons of Hillary Clinton and Susan Rice for USA, David Miliband for UK, and Bernard Kouchner for France are certainly all out to save the terrorists in Sri Lanka. They are using the Tamil Civilians detained as human shields by the terrorists as an issue to pull wool over the eyes of the public, to change USA President Barrack Obama’s policy of no leniency towards terrorists, into a mockery.
The Sri Lanka Tamil Civilian problem in terrorist controlled areas did not exist yesterday. It had existed right along the capture of Kilinochchi by the Sri Lanka Government Forces, with the terrorists taking with them the civilian population, as and when the territories occupied by them were captured by the Government Forces.
All that time, USA,UK and France had not come forward as great humanitarians to save the civilians. None of them came forward seeking entry into terrorist held areas to investigate how the civilians were being treated by the terrorists.
Of course they allowed their usual partners sowing trouble in developing countries-the UNCHR, Human Rights Watch, the Amnesty International, and INGOs, to do the dirty work of putting barriers against the government’s successful military operations against the terrorists. Therefore, it is evident that the appearance now of USA, France and UK trio is to make an all out effort to provide a safe passage to the terrorist leaders.
Why did not the USA,UK, France trio come in defence of the civilians when the Armed Forces of the Sri Lanka Government were using heavy military equipment, and with precise targeting avoided death and injury to the civilian population ? And why do they come now when it is the terrorist leadership that is about to be eliminated to seal the end of terrorism in Sri Lanka ? The answer is too obvious-they are trying their best to give a life line to the terrorists in Sri Lanka.
No war from those of Hannibal to George Bush had been conducted without death and damage to the civilians. The French and the USA armies had killed more civilians in Vietnam than perhaps any other nation in the world. In India and Sri Lanka alone the British had killed as much civilians as the French.
In the French and US bombardments and artillery fire in Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Iraq hundreds of civilians are reported killed. But where are Hillary Clinton, David Miliband, and Bernard Kouchner with the alert of danger to the civilians in those countries ? Aren’t there civilians in boarder villages of Pakistan ?
Why do they make of it an issue in Sri Lanka , a country which is on its way to eliminate “its own” group of ruthless terrorists ? Let them off the hook now, they will come back again for another thirty years of terrorism in Sri Lanka. Is that what the USA President Barrack Obama wants to happen in Sri Lanka ?
Why is the USA President Barrack Obama who made a big issue with “CHANGE- Yes We Can “ an election campaign slogan, now turning back seeking selfsame foreign policies of Bush Administration without any change ? He has even recruited a Sri Lankan terrorist friendly Ambassador from Bush Administration to be Assistant Secretary of State for Asia.
Why is USA State Department under President Barrack Obama who warned the terrorists that he would not be lenient with them, defending the terrorists in Sri Lanka ? During the American Election campaign Hillary Clinton said that she would not lump together all the terrorists, but treat each terrorist group differently from another. But Hillary Clinton should not now be carrying out her own “policies”. If she does she is only negating Barrack Obama’s promised “CHANGE”.
If the terrorists in Sri Lanka are treated differently, obstructing the Sovereign State of Sri Lanka from taking action to eliminate terrorism from its soil, by bringing in questions of violation of human rights, the President Barrack Obama is not putting into effect a progressive foreign policy as far as the developing countries are concerned.
The recent Country report of Terrorism, issued by the USA Administration makes USA President Barrack Obama’s progressive policies look a mere decorations to fool the people inside and out side. It shows that USA will never change who ever becomes the President. Its policies will be the same , “ it’s own interest first, then those of its Western allies” and to hell with others. If the President Barrack Obama is to really bring about CHANGES in America, he will have to make a radical change of the US Administration.
The President Barack Obama, who closed the Guantanamo Prisons, and lifted the commercial, economic and financial embargo to Cuba, cannot surely embark on a “backward march”, to save the terrorists in Sri Lanka by calling the government for a cease fire , threatening that he would withhold the promised IMF loan of 1.9 billion US Dollars, if the Sri Lanka Government refuses a cease fire
The Government of Sri Lanka has determined to end terrorism in Sri Lanka that had lasted for nearly thirty years. In three years it had been able to bring the terrorists to their knees and is about to finish off with terrorism. Why not the Western Countries wait until the Armed Forces of the Sri Lanka Government savour the triumph of victory over the terrorists without throwing a wet blanket over it ?
If world terrorism is to be fought successfully, it is necessary to accept terrorism where ever it exists as terrorism. If President Barrack Obama wants to fight only Al Qaida and Talibans because they are threats to America and its allies, and not terrorists in Sri Lanka because terrorists in Sri Lanka are not a direct threat to USA, UK or France, it is a poor argument on the part of USA.It would mean that USA would allow the developing countries to perish under terrorism, divided and mutilated. Yes Mr. President that would indeed be a CHANGE !! But is that the Change that you as the President of USA wanted to set in motion ?
If Al Quaida or the Talibans would tell Pakistan that they will refrain from terrorism on the soil of Pakistan, but plan and carry out terrorism only against America and the West, then applying the same argument of the American State Department, Pakistan may not treat Al Quaida and Talibans as terrorists, and will help them to hide in Pakistan and do as they please with USA and the West !
Therefore, USA, UK and France have to be careful in choosing which terrorist to save and which terrorist to eliminate. But, it would be a Hobson’s choice , as there are no good terrorists and bad terrorists. They are all terrorists.
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