Kath Noble has done it again! This time it is over the ‘brains’ of Sri Lankans! (The Island of November 6, 2009). This journalist has twisted what I said to suit her purposes. What I said was: ‘’Sri Lankans are a proud people who would not tolerate being pushed around by bigger states.’’

How does Kath Noble connect my above quoted reference, to the ‘brains’ of Sri Lankans unless she still hangs on to the view that in dealing with a big power like the United States of America, Sri Lankans should use their brains to understand that a response of supplication before the mighty power was the best form of diplomacy? Wasn’t that the essence of what she advocated ?

Her journalistic ego seems to have been disturbed by my saying that some experience in this country could have made her wiser on the true nature of Sri Lankans. That can happen to journalists who are trying to ride the high horse among the [brain-less] ‘’’ here. She seems also to be peeved that her writing in The Island on 12 October 2009 where she tried to ‘white-wash’ the U.S. administration about the way it handled the State Secretary’s statement in the UNSC on rape in Sri Lanka ‘as a war tactic’ was exposed by me. Another blow to her ego!

My conclusion that she ‘’appeared to offer gratuitous advice to the Sri Lankan government how to conduct its diplomacy (foreign policy)’’ was based on the essence of her whole submission.

To be fair by the readers, she should have reminded them that she also wrote that Sri Lankans should not have reacted as if the US had fired an Atomic war head at Cinnamon Gardens; all that was necessary was to use tact in responding to State Secretary Hillary Clinton’s statement at the UNSC session; and that it ‘’deserved only a polite request to the US Ambassador here requesting a retraction."

A polite request by little Sri Lanka after she has been assailed by the Secretary of State of the most powerful nation, speaking at the UNSC session which she was chairing! That was Kath Noble’s recommendation! Wasn’t that proposing for this country a state of supplication before the mighty power? This was why I said that Kath Noble appeared to be offering gratuitous advice to the Sri Lankan government. I think I have been too generous to her on the last occasion by sparing the thought that I saw a subtle attempt at subverting the minds of [brain-less] Sri Lankans to accept U.S. over-lordship.