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Do you Hear the Drone of Terror Flying Machine? Your Highness Marshal ROSHAN GUNATILLEKE.

Wasantha Ranagala

This is not a part of sheer blame game but a reality check. The wretched taxpayer who silently faced the brunt of the muck load dumped on his already sagging shoulder has the right to put the blame at the doorstep of the charismatic Marshal Rosahan Gunatilleke in the following order.

You have been given a free hand to decide and implement what is best for aerial cover against the terror outfit LTTE by HE the president on the unequivocal referral by the defence secretary. We remember the hype given to that drama through the media.
Country never questioned the integrity of that appointment if not which the government would have been taken to task by the sect that you represent as a down right discrimination against a scheduled community.
Country stood by you when you recommended a variety of defence deals, promoted and recommended with familiar support of a coterie of your elite clique.
Country stood by MIGs, MI24, Radar systems, Missiles, etc etc that you added to your wish list at colossal guineas to our starving bellies thinking that you were the messiah finally going to deliver the killer “bolt from the blues” to LTTE invincibility.

After totting up all the above and many more not forgetting the multiple stars to your epaulette lets look at your report card.

The ragtag Terror Air Wing with its Wright Brothers vintage decrepit flying machines not only had a dozen free flights over our heads sending shock waves through our spines but also devastated the spirits of innocent teenagers at the front while their fellow infantrymen’s bodies being sent home at regular interval in body bags for you to gallivant in full regalia with a chock-a-block of armed security at five star luxury.

If you can hoodwink us with a customary press conference where your mouth piece would reassure that that was the last Velupillai would ever venture into our homes through his ramshackle flying sources you are sadly mistaken, dear Marshall. The irony that Mahinda Chinthanaya has to sort out and fast at that, is do we need a head with out a head at the helm of our crucial fighting arm that’s air force. If the flight path of the TAF via Pettah to Temple Trees is any indicator, its time the HE understood the blunder he has done that has come home to roost.

Epilogue: Let us not forget that your father, late Marshall Harry Gunatilleke, the run of the mill twin titled air force commander / defence analyst plus behind the curtain consultant to bandit queen CBK was a fancied advocate of LTTE invincibility, who had the audacity to quote from manuscripted trivia of ancient warfare to bestow the tribute of gratuitous heroic title par with Sun Tzu to cannibal Prabhakaran.

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