Washington, Jan. 17 -- This online daily was somewhat amused when Washington sent a Trump White House official who had a track record of being associated with the ideology of Sri Lanka's onetime separatist outfit Liberation Tigers of Tamil Tigers (LTTE/Tamil Tigers), and an advocate of militarization of the Indo-Pacific region to accompany a state department official to meet Sri Lanka's newly inaugurated president Gotabaya Rajapaksa and his brother Mahinda Rajapaksa, a former president now the newly installed prime minister, both of whom who gave the leadership to defeat the outfit in 2009 and kept a distance from Washington during their former (2005-2015) regime.

The Trump envoy has also gone on record the importance of militarizing the...