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" YOU CAN'T LUMP ALL TERRORISTS"- Hillary.
"And I think one of our mistakes has
been painting
with such a broad brush"_______________
Obama presidency promises changes ,and raises higher expectations among the suffering peaceniks in South Asia, among others.Sri Lanka's Tamil eelam tigers- the LTTE_ has been listed in the US list of terror groups in the world; post-9/11, Bush -II has indiscriminately painted all the NSAs or, even legitimate entities, many of whom his own country in the recent past had officially and militarily supported, with the same brush as terrorists per se thereby on occasions projecting the US as a blindfolded ,myopic rogue state.The US, Obama presidency thinks about, could be substantially different- a USA deserving moral warmth and respect of the rest of the world.What would actually transpire belong largely to the domain of expectations- misconceived or,tangible.
The world that resists mindless terrorism,particularly of the fundamentalist complexion, had been consistently espousing the emergence of legitimate suffering and subjugated people or, nations to graduate into independent statehood; there had never been another way around.History has been merciless in turning out successful revolutionaries as statesmen of tall order ,and dumping in those unsuccessful into heinous criminals.The Eelam tigers of Sri Lanka could claim no caveat in human history.
In retrospect,LTTE gained enormous strength from a scratch ,because of full political support of government of India before twenty years, the best ever military training imparted by the top Indian generals etc in as many as thirty secret training centres in India.Chandrika Kumartunga wanted to bring about a negotiated settlement in the island,but the Norwegian facilitator was suspected of bias in favour of the LTTE, while the US president Bush reiterated in his UN GA address in 2004
, the need for absolute use of force in conducting international relations.
Barack Obama, unlike Bush -II in the post 9/11, in his campaigns for the presidency has focused problem of the 21st century, vicious civil war in Sri Lanka,genocide in that part of the world; his speeches indicate that Sri Lankan Tamils can not be accused of committing terrorism.He was incapable of mistaking the subjugated nation as the villain of Sri Lankan prose.
Both Obama and Hillary Clinton addressed the Tamil tiger issue, while apparently overlooking similar issues of protracted insurgency in Assam, and the NE region of India that long preceded in both time scale and intensity ,the Tamil Eelam issue.Their security advisors either conveniently ignore the NE region or, are ignorant of the continuing imbroglio.
His nominated would- be-secretary of state_ the high profile top diplomat _Hillary Clinton also could discriminate the wronged in history against the wrong-doers in history.The envisioned change within and without the new US may impute security- significance towards aiming at a just world order,despite the unpleasant pressures of the foreign policy and national security hawks,compounded by the military industrial complex that misshapes the agenda.
Hillary Clinton had turned down campaign assistance from the LTTE-front org.-the TRO-Tamil Rehabilitation Organisation; she did not play into the hands of any one but herself in choosing a world order.She had compared the LTTE on similar terms with the Basque separatists in Spain,al-Anbar province, and did not conceive in the LTTE another al Qaeda.
In her interview to Miachael Tomasky of the Guardian on 23 October,2007, Hillary Clinton spoke," Well, I believe that terrorism is a tool that has been utilized through out history to achieve certain objectives. Some of them have been ideological, others territorial. There are personality-driven terrorist objective. The bottomline is,you can't lump all terrorists together."
She wanted to diagnose and understand the Tamil tigers.Notably, hawks would keep aside the dignosis and assume even pre-emptive retaliation of all kinds.Hillary Clinton recognised the 'ideological underpinnings' of the Tamil struggles, 'understanding what it is', and proposed what we could do 'much better jobs'.The objectives apart, she spoke that the terrorist bodies and the insurgents are connected by tactics only.
In her words, " And I think we've got to do a better job of clarifying what are the motivations, the raisons de'tre of terrorists." The Obama presidency can think about problems, analyse them, and strategize on them after making deeper penetration into problem structure.
Indian general Ashok Kumar Mehta in an interview- webcast urges upon the Sri Lanka government to fight the LTTE on three fronts viz., the conventional war, the guerrilla war and thirdly, the terrorism.These three are segmented and clearly different. The interviewer questioned general Mehta-" Can government of Sri Lanka ever annihilate the LTTE ? If so how long should it take ?"
Indian general replied, " NEVER."______________________
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