If we go on talking about JR regime it would be an endless one but I have to mention one thing that is Due to his poor diplomacy with India and more favourism towards the USA LTTE became strong from support of India and that poor diplomacy with India saved the life of Prabhakaran when he was cornered which leads another 20years war.UKboy wrote:Post independence era majority of Sri Lankans prefer the left wing oriented political view. It doesn’t matter SLPA, UNP or JVP, majority of the general public still think America as an enemy. Unfortunately our politicians also do not want change this attitude from us. The only clear exception we had in the past was JRJ’s regime. However due to various reasons he failed to get the Yankee support when the country wanted it most.
We were confused by Soviets lead communist countries. (There were few good thing but many bad things happened because of this).
Things has changed now except few countries such Sri Lanka. Sadly we are still holding the anti-western slogans. OK I agree it’s extremely difficult to get support from countries like Canada due to their internal pressure from Tamil diaspora. But we should cooperate with Americans (or at least not go against them all the time).
If we agree with one thing we will get something else what we need. That’s how it works with Americans. They will not give/offer anything for free.
When making friends with international community I think we should select friends who will not interfere with our internal affairs.....It does not really matters whether it is communist country or any other country. We should not be a puppet government of any other country whether it is USA,Russia,China or India.
In my opinion USA is too much interfering with other countries affairs especially where there is no puppet government. So I like to keep them at hand distance without making them our enemies.