At least he survived...

So, an acquaintance/arch-nemesis of mine from my politics class pointed me towards this article from the Torygraph, (errr... fine, the Telegraph then. Mea culpa).

So... anyone surprised? No?

That makes just me then.

I'm rarely called an optimist, but I'd thought, hoped, that maybe amidst the post-election revelry, the Lion King might find it in his heart to live and let live, quietly ruin General Fonseka's career, and then allow him to fade into peaceful obscurity. Perhaps it might be the first stage in his march away from pettiness, nepotism and corruption.

Okay, okay, but I can dream can't I?

Still, perhaps the Rajapakse government really has changed. It's all a question of relativity. So far as I know, Fonseka's still alive, which is more than Lasantha Wickrematunge, previously a friend of Mahinda Rajapakse, got.

Of course, there's always the possibility that by the time I touch down in Sri Lanka this summer, General Fonseka will be six feet under.

We shall see.

P.S. Was amused to see that in the Economist's article about the election they jumped on the Churchwellian analogy just as I did. I got there first. Ahem... w00t.

Hey, I was a noughties teenager, you can forgive me some l33t 5p34k, can't you?