Author: Rover
I've been watching with great dread the drama created by the UN, Norway, UK and USA, to end Sri Lanka government's drive against the LTTE terror. I initially thought they would correct the "slip ups" they made, but it seems that they will never amend.
I sincerely thought that the liberal democratic world formed a wide coalition to bring down world terrorism, which is the single greatest threat to democracies throughout the world. But the statements by persona such as Hilary Clinton, Milliband (a minister from labor party in UK), and others are directly weakening this coalition, that is if ever there was actually one. For example Hillary Clinton said that "the entire world is very disappointed" (with Sri Lanka) "causing such untold suffering".
I was even against Sri Lanka borrowing money from such repressive regimes as Iran, arguing that when we pay back their money with interest, that would perpetuate the strengthening of states that support terrorism. But now, to my mind, some of the powerful nations in the IC are it seems are guilty of turning out to be "states that support terrorism". That is of course if they still define terrorists as "groups that use terror against civilians to get at a political objective".
As I have indicated in a previous article, LTTE is by all definitions is a terrorist group that is inimical to the democratic process. LTTE has introduced, devised, and improvised many terror tactics (such as human suicide bombings, suicide jackets, suicide naval craft, export of terrorists to more affluent nations to fund its terror campaign, suicide planes ect.), and holding massive civilian human shields is the latest addition to this ever growing list. LTTE has been holding human shields for its own protections throughout its campaign, but the shear size of the latest shield surpasses all previous ones, and has become perhaps the largest one in human history. This has caused untold suffering to the civilians under issue. The people that didn't agree to the draconian plan of the terrorists have been shot, maimed and killed. The terror that is caused to the very own people that it tries to protect has now become the tool to get at a political objective. The current political objective being the protection of the LTTE's top leadership, to FIGHT ANOTHER DAY.
The Sri Lankan army has rescued more than 2/3rd of these civilians (which was estimated to be a total of 150,000 people), and are about to rescue the rest while aiming to destroy the terrorist leadership. This is the cause for the unsubstantiated warnings by the IC on the government of Sri lanka!
If Obama administration is aiming to mollify terrorist groups through such irresponsible utterances exhibited by Hillary Clinton, I think that they are going back on whatever progress that was made in the war against terror. These utterances will encourage not only the LTTE to hold on to the human shield for its own protection, but also encourage other terrorist groups to realize the value of "human shield terror". It is quite pathetic to see most of these great nations terrified and whining by the terror unleashed by the terrorist LTTE.
Hence, unfortunately, one thing is becoming clear. For the IC, their special interests seems to be overriding the global war against all types of terror. Are we now seeing a deterioration of the the resolve that the world as a whole had after witnessing the horrendous 9-11 attacks? If the answer to this is yes, then, it is indeed sad times for the whole world.
