International Events

The civil war in Sri Lanka is supposedly over and done. At least, the LTTE is essentially vanquished, and the Sri Lankan government has declared victory. Given how ugly things got throughout the conflict, but especially in the last couple weeks, with the hospital bombings and things, I wonder at how effectively the Sinhalese government will be able to keep the Tamils from forming another serious rebel movement. That said, the fact that President Rajapaksa gave a victory speech in Tamil might be a good start.

In other international news, it would make me very happy if Obama told Netanyahu that his government is bad and he should feel bad.