Kunanayakam hits the Mark. USA behind the Swiss-Hit

Gareth Evans says Sri Lanka, as with other countries recently decolonized, are “sensitive” about their sovereignty as if “sensitive” is a weakness, but the US and Australia exhibit a religious zeal for their own respective sovereignties that goes well beyond cute sensitivity.

A colonial mindset still bubbles in the minds of many western political figures – a fact many have difficulty raising to consciousness. In fact, since WW2, the West have never really managed to overcome it, most notably the US and Australia who persistently demonize Asian nations that refuse to yield to their notions of democracy which is tied to their values of advancing their own interests in international relations. Colonialism is reinvented in new fluid forms, deeply embedded in Western liberal democracies to the point of being a disease.