US, Britain Dancing Naked

By Nacholibre

(February 26, Colombo, Sri Lanka Guardian) When Bin Laden blew down the Twin Towers in New York in one single attack, and when the US intelligence erroneously reported that Sadam Hussein has WMDs, the US lost no time in harnessing support of Britain and other world leaders to destroy the whole of Iraq, and Afghanistan. Did the US heed the UN call not to attack Iraq in the first place? No it didn’t . In that instance, the UN was reduced to the mere state of a neutered dog, which could produce nothing than a feeble whine against the US and its allies.

Sophisticated and state-of-the-art weaponry was used against those victim Nations with one objective. Capture or kill Sadam and Bin Laden. Was it going to be a zero civilian causality affair? Not by any any long shot. Did the US try to cut any slack for these two “terrorists” (to use their own terminology that they used to identify Sadam and Bin Laden) because the war on terror is killing and miming innocent civilians too? No they didn’t? Did Britain refused to support the US war in Iraq, objecting to the possible civilian misery that would arise out of such a blatant move against another country? No it never did. It wholeheartedly supported the campaign disregarding critics that said the war is bringing death and destruction to innocent civilians and property. Did they stop and think that may be they could talk to Sadam and Bin Laden instead of attacking? One had to be been dreaming some dream to see that happening!

The US and Britain had one simple reason to reject all those: Sadam and Bin Laden are two dangerous terrorist leaders that the world cannot afford to let live. Us and Britain decided that human misery or not, those two criminals had to be eliminated at any cost. Thus, two hoots to the rights of the humans that would be killed and maimed as collateral damage in their endeavour, they went to war. In that instance, they figured they had no choice but to wage war and kill Sadam and Bin Laden.

Cut to the Sri Lankan conflict, the US and Britain think there is a choice. They are of the opinion that the Sri Lankan State should stop the war and cut some slack for the cornered terrorist leaders of the LTTE including Prabakaran. Why? Their argument is most humane and simple. They say the war causes civilian casualties, and therefore, the State should stop hunting down the terrorist remainder and talk to them! By God, what a wisdom the US and Britain have!

Veluillai Prabakaran, the infamous leader of once the world’s most ruthless and sophisticated terrorist organization, went on a killing spree for nearly thirty odd years. He masterminded hundreds of devastating terrorist attacks against the Sri Lankan State to enable his terrorist organization to carve out a monoethnic enclave in the North and East of the island. Prabakaran killed thousands of members of our tri-forces, destroyed billions of monies worth defence establishments, and property, attacked the financial capital and nerve centres of the Sri Lankan economy as well as places of religious and cultural importance, maimed and destroyed thousands of innocent children, men and women and monks, assassinated two world leaders and dozens of intellectuals. Sri Lanka never saw a monster like Prabakaran after the carnage left by the exiting imperialistic Portugese, Dutch and British crowns during the colonial period. In other words, Velupillai Prabakaran and his deputy terrorists of the LTTE single-handedly destroyed post colonial Sri Lanka and destroyed its people and their livelihood with the assistance of a carefully laid network of terror supporters of all walks of life around the world.

The Sri Lankan people had had enough of this brutal terrorism perpetrated by Prabakaran and his terror gang crippling lives and the country for so long as they can remember. They correctly decided that Prabakaran and his menace had to be stopped and stopped as soon as possible, as a result of which we see what we see today. The LTTE is almost destroyed, most of its carder and deputies killed and the remainder cornered to not more than 60 square kilometers of land. Sri Lanka is about to nail the most brutal terror organization in the world, where as Bin Laden is still at large and US nor Britain has a clue where he is.

Although the US and Britain took steps to destroy Iraq beyond salvation in their bid to kill Sadam and are still waging war on Bin Laden, they are outraged by the effort of the Sri Lankan State to finish off Prabakaran. Why? They say that civilians are being killed by the State in its campaign to hunt Prabakaran. The British officials such as Milliband, G. Brown and Lunstead are so worried at the Sri Lankan armed forces counter-terrorist offensives, citing possible civilian misery. The truth of the matter is, they seemed to have had no such worry when they jump started the War on Terror alongside the US and attacked Iraq and Afghanistan from land and air, bombing and destroying everything that came in their way. They are still doing it and are calling on Sri Lanka to stop the war and talk to the terrorists. When they were destroying Iraq and Afghanistan, they put down their Human Rights spectacles go on about their business and when they want to watch the Sri Lankan scene, they put them back on.

Thus, we would like to say this to the US and Britain. Rather than trying shameless acts of cutting some slack for a brutal terrorist organization, is it not wiser for the US and Britan to cut some clothe and cover their nakedness first?
-Sri Lanka Guardian