{"id":40811,"date":"2015-01-12T22:20:54","date_gmt":"2015-01-13T04:20:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=40811"},"modified":"2015-01-12T07:36:51","modified_gmt":"2015-01-12T14:36:51","slug":"how-long-will-the-honeymoon-last","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2015\/01\/12\/how-long-will-the-honeymoon-last\/","title":{"rendered":"How Long will the Honeymoon Last?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Prof. Hudson Maclean<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n

Sri Lanka electorate and the players have reached political maturity.<\/p>\n

The ancient civilization of the Sinhela have demonstrated proudly to the world how democracy is played in this little Island.<\/p>\n

The politicians behaved with decency and the voters, who normally end-up carving-up a few hearts & souls, with a few funerals after the voting, surprised the foreign observers, with the civility & decency.<\/p>\n

The new Prime Minister Ranil Wickremasinghe, according to the news reports acted with civility and dignity, as the go-between negotiator behind the security screens at Temple Trees.<\/p>\n

One thing which really surprised me,is that, in a gossip-mongering City of Colombo, how can Ranil + CBK cook the goose MR, in such secrecy, that even GR having met with his dear ole friend My3, missed the plot. This goes to show, the present day Sri Lankan politicians do know How-to-Plan!<\/p>\n

One very important observation is the Tamil mentality.\u00a0 Mahinda Rajapaksa paid the full price for bending-over-backwards to build the infrastructure in the North and the East, sacrificing the Sinhela South.\u00a0 In the well known Tamil tradition, the Tamils voted for the opponent, simply to de-Throne Mahinda Rajapaksa, the hand that fed them.\u00a0 I personally have had a similar experience in having a Sri Lankan Jaffna Tamil accountant in my employment in the UK, and the SoB did sell-me-to-my-opponent. An insider deal.<\/p>\n

\u00a0Moral of the story: Never Trust Tamils!<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Second important observation is the Dynamic Duo. Ranil Wickramasinghe and CBK. These are historically known facts that, both Ranil & CBK, “Sold Sri Lanka to LTTE Terrorist Velupillai Prabhakaran” directly and through Erik Solheim. Those who followed the blue-eyed Norwegian Minster of International Development crap, loves his Thosai, but upon consumption, suffers immediately from diarrhea. Solheim having got thrown out of his Cabinet post in Norwegian parliament, has a new job in a European organization.<\/p>\n

Erik Solheim took the lead of the OECD Development Assistance Committee (DAC) in January 2013. A job he always wanted.<\/p>\n

During the times when General Sarath Fonseka was having his political hick-ups, I was most sympathetic to his fate but not to that of his son-in-law, who disappeared. Undoubtedly, the boy-wonder will return with or without excess baggage.<\/p>\n

The newly ascending star Sarath Fonseka, as a full blown General or even as a Field Marshall, to sit next to the newly elected King (Minister of Defense), as his Deputy Minister of Defense, will be the one to watch. Fonseka is also a “China Man”.<\/p>\n

A good balancing act to have Sarath Fonseka in between the President My3 and CBK-Ranil, aka Tom & Jerry Show.\u00a0 Most certainly Fonseka will send his son-in-law to China to source the hardware, and hopefully keeps only 5% commission.<\/p>\n

There are two interesting scenarios: First, since My3 has already announced that he is only interested in a single term Presidency, just to sweep & clean the dirt left by Mahinda Rajapakse, Fonseka will undoubtedly lie-and-wait for the occasion. During the five-year stint, Fonseka clan will rake-in the dollars to fund his ambitions.<\/p>\n

Moreover, unless My3 gets rough & tough, puts Mahinda Rajapaksa through the “mill”, castrate his ambitions of a resurgence in Presidency, then it will be “Revenge-is-Sweet” for Field Marshall or General Sarath Foseka, to face his old rival at the next Presidential Race, and might even climb-up to the Throne.<\/p>\n

At this moment, My3 deserves fullest support to carry out his immensely complicated dream of feeding Sri Lanka with an empty sack. He really needs a decent accountant to add-up the give-aways to see from where he is going to collect the revenues, especially if China get booted-out or side-lined.<\/p>\n

Sri Lanka should count-out EU & USA currently suffering from economic woes and Islamic Terrorism, are not in the best mood to give alms. Russia is in dire straits. India might offer the odd bowl of rice but not much comfort.<\/p>\n

The only donors left are China – Japan – Korea. Arab oil producing countries are having a 50% cut-in-oil-revenues. Therefore better tell the Indians, either “Put-up or Shut-up”. Sri Lanka has no other choice than stay with China.<\/p>\n

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