Half Won Battle and My Vote Today..

Mahinda Rajapaksha and Co are corrupt..there is no doubt about that...all you need to do is read Sunday Leader every week and you will get details of all the allegation leveled against MR&Co.,and if Mahinda is re-elected, corruption will continue but that's something I can live with .. 

Not that i endorse corruption, but i know i,as an individual citizen, with my vote in hand can fight corruption.. and may be even on the streets...if there is an opportunity for such..i know that's the responsibility of the Opposing..and the media ..so i know well that I'm not alone in fighting corruption..of course assuming Opposition and Media will focus on fighting or least deterring such practices and not yield to it.. 

But what i can't fight is Terrorism and Subversion.. for that you need the  Powers of the State and that's what Mahinda did when he uprooted the Cancer that's called LTTE and its call for Eelam..and the LTTE is gone .. least in Sri Lanka.. they are history and even a minute come back is not possible in the forcible future.. 

But the call for Eelam or a Separate,Mono Ethnic Tamil Only state that will take away 35-40% of Sri Lanka is still alive and well and is nourished by some sections of the Tamil Diaspora and some Western States and they have the tacit support of groups in Sri Lanka like the TNA for that venture..so, even if i voted today for the first time in an Independent Sri Lanka,that hard fought Independence will not be worthwhile if we lose the other half of the battle against the 'foreign' forces who call for Separation of Sri Lanka by other means.for this we need MR and no other.. and that's why i voted today for MR ..not because i want 'good governance' ' media freedom' and 'accuntability' ...those things can wait..but we can't wait and see the return of another 30 years of war and terror..

There can be no second best when comes to defending evils that are set upon this country..