SJB's Silver Bullet: Premadasa Reloaded - Rejoinder To Krishantha Cooray
Dr. Dayan Jayatilleka If you ask the wrong question, you inevitably get the wrong answer. The entire burden of Krishantha Cooray’s strategic perspective for the SJB is contained in the penultimate paragraph of his latest article. It reads: “…In effect, do they [the SJB] want to borrow from the strategy that propelled Maithripala Sirisena to the presidency and succeed where he failed, or take a page out of President Gotabaya Rajapaksa’s path to victory in 2019 with a promise to succeed where he has failed?” He adds that “the latter strategy would be a fatal error”. Why on earth...