{"id":40761,"date":"2015-01-10T12:26:30","date_gmt":"2015-01-10T19:26:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=40761"},"modified":"2015-01-10T12:26:30","modified_gmt":"2015-01-10T19:26:30","slug":"letter-to-the-editor-mahinda-still-could-have-won-if-only","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2015\/01\/10\/letter-to-the-editor-mahinda-still-could-have-won-if-only\/","title":{"rendered":"Letter to the editor: Mahinda still could have won, if only\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026."},"content":{"rendered":"

\u00a0Dr. Mareena Thaha Reffai, Dehiwela<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n

Of all the sad words of tongue or pen, the saddest are these, ‘It might have been.\u201dSo said John Greenleaf Whittier.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0Watching Mahinda Rajapakse leaving, one marvels at the fact that \u00a0we have absolutely \u00a0no control of what tomorrow holds for us.\u00a0 One day you are king, and the next day you are nothing. No body. Analyzing the election results one can see he still had a good number of people who wanted him to come back, for reasons we will not know, but the following was not small.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0He could have been the President of Srilanka for life if only\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026for the following \u00a0two facts ( in the order of importance).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

All other matters, such as arrogance, greed, nepotism etc. were secondary.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0If only…….<\/span><\/p>\n

    \n
  1. \u00a0 1.\u00a0He did not believe in the astrologer. I am pretty sure there would have been many instances the prophecy of this particular \u00a0astrologer would have been wrong. How did he miss the simple fact that no one \u2013 absolutely no one \u2013 can predict the future but God alone knows it?<\/span><\/li>\n
  2. \u00a0 2.\u00a0He treated the minorities better. Why in the world did he target the Muslims to be abused, terrorized \u00a0and oppressed is still a dilemma. There are many\u00a0 theories but none of them makes sense. How come he did not realize that old saying Much more things are sought by prayers than this world dreams of?\u201d \u00a0If he wanted to create an uprising of Muslims he chose the most wrongest \u00a0person in the world \u2013 he not only antagonized the Muslims ( if that is what he wanted) but also antagonized majority of right thinking people, especially the Buddhists who saw the gutter tactics of his choice degrading Buddhism more than Islam.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    With all the wealth at his fingertips all he needed to help the Tamils was to spend a bit of it to rehabilitate \u00a0them. He could have had all of them en bloc supporting him. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

    Well, it was not to be.<\/span><\/p>\n

    \u00a0Sent by :<\/span><\/p>\n

    Dr. Mareena Thaha Reffai, Dehiwela<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    \u00a0Dr. Mareena Thaha Reffai, Dehiwela Of all the sad words of tongue or pen, the saddest are these, ‘It might have been.\u201dSo said John Greenleaf Whittier. \u00a0Watching Mahinda Rajapakse leaving, one marvels at the fact that \u00a0we have absolutely \u00a0no control of what tomorrow holds for us.\u00a0 One day you are king, and the next […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40761","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-forum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40761","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40761"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40761\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}