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He has done it. President Rajapakshe has done what no other president was able to do for the last twenty five years. He has almost destroyed single handedly the terror network of the LTTE, the rebel outfit of the tamil tigers in Lanka. Dozens of heads of state, thousands of people had died during this time, billions of dollars of property destroyed and what more can anyone ask. The rebels used terror to demand a separate homeland for the tamils. But the demands were forgotten long ago. All that remained were the killings with suicide bombers and others. Where is all this heading for poor Lanka? Once the land of evergreen mangrove and pine and cocoanut forests it was reduced almost to a rubble - I remember the scenes in that masterpiece from Hollywood…” The Bridge on the River Kwai ” Sir Alec Guiness battling with the Japanese to build a bridge. All of those memorable scenes were shot on the picturesque locales in Lanka. We all want a better deal for the poor tamils living in Lanka, but look how their cause was destroyed by just one man…Prabhakaran! Where is he hiding now that his fighters are all dead?  He is on the run or has ended his life somewhere. What a coward! Imagine yourself hiding while your loyal soldiers were fighting for you. Even Bin Laden was better. Not a single leader in Lanka could tackle the ethnic problem as did Rajapakshe. We salute him. I only hope he starts now a genuine dialogue with the true representatives of the tamils living in Lanka.

  How good is going to be Obama’s stimulus package of 800 billion $  for the economy? We just heard about even microsoft cutting on 5000 jobs, companies like Pfizer, caterpillar and others have also announced job cuts. Will infusing billions of dollars bring more jobs? Where is the guarantee? America is going through a crisis unprecedented in its history. Is it time to look at all this economic liberalization even in third world countries ? maybe the chinese system is the best.

  And finally on a light note why should the Indian cricket team travel to Lanka now to play cricket there? The poor players have to obey or else the greedy cricket board in India would go into losses in crores of rupees.

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