War and Peace
Yesterday LTTE has tried to assassinate the Army commander. This is not new to Sri Lanka. There is no doubt that this is a barbaric act done by the murderous LTTE. But if we look at the circumstances under which this has taken place, the only words I can think of to describe this are hilarious, stupid and incompetent. First, the Army commander was attacked inside the highly guarded army headquarters. The suicide bomber was dressed up as a pregnant woman who had come to the maternity clinic of the army hospital. The website lankatruth.com had reported the following.
Officials say a woman exploded a powerful bomb in front of the silver Peugeot 406 which had three gold stars marked on a red background indicating it was the vehicle carrying military commander Sarath Fonseka. He was escorted by Land Rover Defender jeeps packed with armed soldiers and heavily armed motorcycle outriders, one of whom kicked the woman bomber as she tried to get near the convoy, a military official said.
This raises the following questions.
1.Why does the army maintain a maternity clinic inside the highly guarded headquarters? Why do they allow non military personnel to come inside the headquarters for matters that does not have any military importance?
2.Why did the army commander travel in a marked car (with three gold stars, etc.)?
3.How can an army, which can't protect its own commander inside its own highly guarded headquarters protect the country or go to war and defeat the LTTE?
And last but not least
4. How can the government put the blame for this incident to Ranil and his cease fire agreement? (Suggesions: i. The bomber came to Colombo when Ranil was the Prime minister. ii. The cease fire agreement stopped the war and the Tamil people had time to have sex so this suicide bomber got pregnant, which had lead to this incident. iii. Ranil had made the woman pregnant and which lead the path for her to go to the maternity clinic. Naaaa. Nobody would buy that.)
