How Would JR, Gamini Or Lalith Have Handled The Current Regime/Chaos?
“Any nation that thinks more of its ease and comfort than its freedom will soon lose its freedom; and the ironical thing about it is that it will lose its ease and comfort too.” ~W. Somerset Maugham
It is indeed a fascinating exercise to speculate. Not only is it fascinating but taken in the context of great uncertainty that shrouds today’s issues, it is intriguing and educating to find out what the old Masters’ strategic thinking and their tactical moves within that strategy, would have engineered to bring about a collapse of an ostensibly formidable power. The obvious counter to the basic premise of this argument is: If J R, Gamini or Lalith were alive today, there would never have been a President Mahinda Rajapaksa. Mahinda Rajapaksa– yes, but as President- no way. Therefore, Readers, please read this piece only in the context of the basic premise being treated as speculation or conjecture. But I have no doubt that in that speculative exercise we will find some fascinating facts, illuminating examples and some uncanny parallels. How would J R, Gamini or Lalith have, individually as well as collectively, managed the current dual-crisis- the United National Party and the Opposition on the one hand and on the other, a corrupt and nepotistic regime headed by one single family.Read More