May Day rebuff to Darusman cacophony

May Day rebuff to Darusman cacophony
On May 21, 2009, just days after the final rout of the LTTE, the Wall Street Journal in an editorial comment observed that 'The war on terror scored a big victory this weekend with the Sri Lankan Army's battlefield defeat of the terrorist Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam. The event ends one of the world's longest running civil wars. It also vindicates one of the major lessons of September 11: Most of the time, terrorists have to be defeated militarily before political accommodation is possible'.
It was taking the wider view of the reality and impact of Sri Lanka's success in defeating the forces of terror, in the face of determined opposition to this move, even by the United States, which, has since September 11, 2001 led a 'War on Terror' of its own, drawing NATO also into the attack. The WSJ made an assessment of the service that Sri Lanka had done to the world in showing the necessity and ability to defeat terrorism militarily.
Courtesy : Dailynews