I have already written 3 blog entries in
this regard in JULY 2016, so my blog here is in connection with the attached
report that Groundbreaking on this project to build the huge embassy complex
has just started!
Ironically it is called an enduring
symbol of friendship, which any person with half a brain will have a wry smile,
knowing it is the easiest method of eves dropping on every sick joke made at
Temple Trees from now on.
So
let us revisit my original appeal to the US NOT to build this Embassy
here.
This was written 5 months ago, with the
intention of avoiding a National Crisis in 4 years when the elections are in
full swing and the Embassy is up and operational so that their presence then
will NOT cause undue influence over the fickle Sri Lankan voter whose mind can
be manipulated against the US with the Embassy at the doorstep of Sri Lankan
power.
PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE if you understand the Sri Lankan psyche, it takes a long time to wake-up from their slumber, but once it has woken up, it can be deadly, and people's worst fears can easily be aroused irrationally, and your Embassy there is a RED RAG TO A BULL.
In any case the current Ambassador will not even be around when the new complex is ready for occupation and William Moser is just a bureacrat doing his job, and it does not matter either way to him. So it is for the sake of the US interests in Sri Lanka that I am making this appeal for common sense and once you have read my three previous blog entries you wil be better off being granted 100 acres along the Mahaweli Bank to develop the most beatiful US Embassy in the World, where even a future President can just Copter in from the largest Aircraft Carrier in the US Navy safely in the Trincomalee harbor.
As for pushing the procrastinating SL Govt. to move the Capital a gentle nudge and the promise of a US$1B grant for that purpose in Polonnaruwa will do the trick. At least we can have that ready in 10 years instead of 20, when it will cost twice as much!
Of course my point can only be
understood by people who actually have a vision of the future and likely
outcomes, so I do not believe any in Govtnone of whom are visionary will even
understand what I am about to say, but here I am appealing not to Sri Lanka but
to the US State Department NOT to be foolish and act in the interest of the US
Public by donating this land for a much needed park complex in Colombo, as the
City will be suffocating in a few years with nowhere to breathe.
Of course the foul air will in any case
prevent any US staffer worth their breadth, wanting to serve in Colombo, so in
the all round interests, plan on Building the US Embassy as the first building
in the new Capital City Complex of Sri Lanka which I guess to be on the banks
of the Mahaweli in Manampitiya!
The links to my other two entries
relating to this are also shown below to complete the trilogy I wrote over 5
months previously, which no doubt the US Govt. have not cared a damn about, but
don’t say I did not say so later on.
For starters the Contractor will have to bring his labor from the US to build the Embassy because there are NO workers in Sri Lanka in construction.
ReplyDeleteIt is a lost cause even before you start building, so I agree, just don't.
If you do the Math. @rs25M a perch, the 6 acres is worth Rs24Billion just for the land. That is US$ 160 Million. The most expensive house on the Market in the United States is less than US$160 million and you get over 100 acres of land in one of the most beautiful parts of the Country.
ReplyDeleteTime to think again, donate it to Sri Lanka ONLY for a public park, it will bring you more goodwill than anything the US will or could do for Sri Lanka for the next 100 years.
Now that is in the interest of the American people surely.
Time for an immediate re evaluation of the project