While I support the US in its war against terrorist organisations and their hosts, and endorse America's right of armed self-defence and retaliation (eg. Afghanistan), I remain unreservedly opposed to US aggression against independent states and therefore its policy on Iraq and Cuba. I am in excellent company because that is the position of the majority in the United Nations. Taraki also classes me implicitly as a "Sinhala nationalist who seeks to preserve the unitary state with foreign military assistance". "Sinhala nationalist", yes perhaps (though I'd prefer Sri Lankan), "foreign military assistance" for sure, but the "unitary" state, no. Taraki is far too literate to have unintentionally confused "united" with "unitary".
Dayan Jayatilleka
