Dude, Where is the Roadmap… to Peace?
George R.Ckrhushchev Politics, as we all know, make strange bedfellows. Thanks to the electorate that is fragmented along the religious, regional, economic, ethnic, linguistic and ideological lines, this bed-hopping becomes a necessary evil to bring some sort of stability in governance. Or an unnecessary evil that leads to perpetual bickering, blackmailing and chaos. But the political unions made in South Asia would put sex workers to shame and make former politicians who bedded those sex workers, from John Profumo to Eliot Spitzer, spinning in the political graves they dug themselves in. No one has made dealmaking an art form more than our very own Mahinda Rajapakse. The man knows the Zen and Art of deal making that would make the self-proclaimed Dealmeister Donald Trump look like a kindergarden kid. If Mahinda were a hormone-driven teenaged girl, he would be pregnant all the time. Simply because, when it comes to making alliances, he can’t say no to any demands! To ensure his residen
