Mr. Robert Blake: Condescending, Crass, Cheap Advice Not Solicited nor Welcomed!

By OaO Asithri
July 22, 2010

Mr. Robert Blake, US Assistant Secretary of State said yesterday when meeting the media in Colombo:
 

“The US believes the UN panel can play an important advisory role with Sri Lanka 's commission. UN has greater experience in many parts of the world with such conditions and that experience could benefit Sri Lanka 's Commission."

Furthermore, he said “the panel is only an advisory panel and does not have an investigatory or judicial role of any kind."

Blimey, how silly of us little brown men/women of Sri Lanka ! Why did we not think of these entirely-good-intentioned measures before ourselves? Silly us, did we not know that our own Commission is deficient as it was lacking “helpful greater-experience” of this UN panel?
 
“helpful greater experience of UN panel” – what is that? Pardon me, but is this akin to the white elephant we all long to see before we die?

Yes, I am astounded beyond words but then again not surprised by this man’s utterances! What galling cheekiness, what diplomatic gaudiness and simply stated, what crass “holier than thou” condescending cheap behavior!

Since when did Sri Lankans appoint this Bobby as their National Reconciliation Minister, or the National I-know-whatz-good-for-you-you brown-minions Minister, or for that matter, their National Raw-sewage-salvation Minister?

Maybe we Sri Lankans did, and in the same vein I am sure Americans also appointed our veritable, ever-potent Keheliya Rambukwella as their “Hide-our-utter-shame-&-proudly-tucktail-&-exit-from Iraq-Afghanistan” Special Advisor to Obama?

Truly, this man’s crass arrogance and gaudy diplomatic faux-pas vis-à-vis Sri Lanka that I have seen, now and before, never fails to shake-my-cockles and ghast-my-flabber to a fit!

I wonder…

Would he dare to do the same by giving such unsolicited, warped advice to other countries, say to the Spanish on the “Basque issue” or to the Canadian on the “First Nations issue” or for that matter to the Indians on the “ Kashmir issue?” I think not!

Rather, should not this man be concentrating his evidently-challenged acumen in the extrication of the now badly bogged-down, all but defeated, demoralized US and other “US-coalition forces” from Iraq and Afghanistan? Is that not a more important issue for this man to waste his sweat droplets on than the now-self healing Sri Lankan issue?

Sadly, what this man fails to realize is that his crass arrogant behavior is so gaudy and nauseating to us Sri Lankans that the complete opposite of what he wants to achieve is bound to realize vis-à-vis his pet-project cum-mania, the “Sri Lankan issue!”

Aha, lest I forget, yes, did I not earlier speak of the National Raw-sewage-salvation Minister? Now we all know that when we speak of Raw-sewage, we cannot not consider our heinous-terrorist LTTE darlings of only about one year ago. As such, sorry Bobby, this is one post you cannot stealthily grab as today that position is hotly contested between the masses-resoundingly-rejected Ranil Wickremasinghe and Somawansa Amarasinghe camps and the last I heard, this “menace-to-SL traitors” Rajapakse-Regime (resoundingly accepted by the masses) has very magnanimously agreed to let each camp share that mandate equally and each of them camps is in sheer bliss now, working at it night and day!