If "the war" was a strategy game
Seeing, hearing and living amidst this whole "war" situation is somehow absurd. It's a given fact that it exists, but no one really cares about it. Sometimes it gets to the coffee talks of people if something blasts near or in Colombo. But that's it. In its absurdity I wouldn't even call it a war, but since I don't have a better expression for it, let it be "war" (in parenthesis).Imagine this "war" was a computer strategy game. The player could choose in the beginning whether to fight with the Government of Sri Lanka (GoSL) or Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE).
In case you chose GoSL your mission would be something like this: "Destroy terrorists and maximize the generated profit while assuring the international community Sri Lanka is a great place to invest in and our cricket team is the best."
If you decided to go for LTTE your mission could state: "Destroy government forces and maximize the revenue from the diaspora while assuring international community that you're fighting for a just cause and that our cricket team is the best."
Now, the strategies of GoSL could include for example investments in military machinery, PR work for president's popularity, PR work (a.k.a propaganda) against LTTE, and assigning new ministries to confuse the general public and the MPs themselves. The points would come from the promises that you have successfully broken without having any effect on the president's popularity and of course from the success of the cricket team.
Strategies of LTTE could be fund raising campaigns abroad, recruitment and induction of promising young talent, investments in military machinery and PR work for LTTE's popularity (or against the Sinhalese oppressors). The points would come from the growing stupidity ratio of the opponent and of course from the success of the cricket team.
Of course these strategies are just internal that are not revealed for the opponent. In public the mission of both parties would be to end the hostilities and come to a ceasefire agreement that ensures peace and harmony for all the ethnic groups on the island.
posted by Tomi Astikainen @ Monday, May 28, 2007
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