Last week the rumour mills went into over-drive with speculation that the Chief of Defense Staff, General Sarath Fonseka, would be throwing his hat into his ring at the presidential election. People were analyzing the speech he made at a Buddhist temple in the USA and snippets of the speech were being emailed around. The Leader of the Opposition went on TV saying that the government was running scared of Sarath Fonseka and Sarath N.Silva.
Ranil Wickremesinghe was thereby accepting publicly the fact that while the government was scared of two men who had never been in politics in their lives, the government was not in the least scared of Wickremesinghe who had done nothing but politics all his life, and was leading the main opposition party. It is rarely that a politician passes such a telling indictment upon himself Read the rest of this entry »
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