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 LEARNING FROM BOSTON

Even as the U.S government seems to establish what are called good governance and rule of law principles in countries such as Sri Lanka, the country's mainland is under attack. Boston of all places is almost elementally US - considering that town was home to the Boston Tea Party, the event in whose wake the American revolution began.

But Boston is where the attackers struck - and it was at the Boston marathon which is an inspiring sporting event, and probably the last place U.S Homeland Security expected a resurgent terrorist strike.

In the attack's aftermath, Barack Obama the U.S President will no doubt say that the country's war on terror is far from over, and this statement would of course be an advance indicator that there will be more mayhem in Afghanistan and Pakistan and other Muslim countries which bears the brunt of indiscriminate U.S drone attacks etc., which are supposed to be in furtherance of the cause of the war on terror.

This terror attack in the U.S heartland is a good indicator as any that the chickens are bound to come home to roost, if the U.S government under President Obama continues to launch indiscriminate drone strikes which end up killing scores of innocent civilians, including children. The Boston attack has killed and maimed innocent children too.

Such carnage is condemned in these columns in the severest of terms. But also condemned are the attacks that consume the lives of innocent children in Afghanistan and Pakistan - the most recent of which killed almost a dozen children who went unhonoured and unsung on CNN, and received no mention in Obama's homilies from the South Lawn or the Rose Garden.

This is why the world hopes that the Boston attack marks a turning point, with the U.S regime having the good sense to realize that violence begets violence, as that sage figure Mahathma Gandhi, who incidentally was never awarded the Nobel Prize, once said.

Unfortunately, the recent record of the U.S government does not give cause or reason to hope for such a sanguine outcome.

U.S Presidents have generally displayed a proclivity to go berserk after terror attacks, and sometimes to go berserk when there are no terror attacks at all, as was evidenced by the U.S invasion of Iraq to take one example.

The U.S government's response to terrorist attacks on home soil has been to slash and burn foreign terrain, attack indiscriminately certain perceived enemies, and launch an overall indiscriminate assault which is often largely a disproportionately revengeful and chaotic response considering the original onslaught.

There is also the other consideration of unprovoked U.S attacks such as the utterly unlawful invasion of Iraq, which of course probably precipitates attacks on U.S home soil resulting in a vicious circle of violence that sees the enrichment of TNT manufacturers and little else in terms of positives, but causes untold grief, human suffering and general misery by the container-load.

In overall terms the U.S as an exporter of misery to the world is a sad picture. U.S policy seems to also cause misery at home - just ask the father of the eight year old boy who was killed in the Boston blast, and his little six year old sister who lost one leg and may yet lose the other.

One more important thing this attack proves is that the Unites States government has much to do in putting its own home front in order before attempting to reinvent the world in Uncle Sam's own image, by being a busybody at U.N forums passing resolutions on countries such as ours. This country and her people would no doubt provide the U.S with maximum support in dealing with her own considerable security problems, as long as our own people are given the assurance that they could get on with their lives without having to think about what the literally insecure alleged super-power would do next to sunder the atmosphere of calm here in Sri Lanka, after our own hard fight against the terrorists.


 

The fading of a dazzling light of gargantuan versatility :

REMEMBERING TISSA ABEYSEKERA

Today (April 18, 2013) is the fourth death anniversary of a legendary man of unparalleled faculty, whose life encompassed a sheer, rich versatility. The world of Sri Lankan screenplays, movie directions, performing/acting, political activism, writing and analysis was undeniably enriched by this startling human being, that possessed knowledge in each of the aforesaid spheres, and much more, in a manner that surpassed that of a routine intellectual.

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LIFE ABROAD - Part 24:

LOST DREAM!

The closing down of the Ceylon Students Centre was a big sledge hammer blow to the students and the Sri Lankan expatriates who used to enjoy typical Sri Lankan cuisine at an extremely reasonable price which also saved time in preparing insipid meals by students on their own lodgings.

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