Las Vegas, Dec. 17 -- Sri Lanka ambassador to the United States seems to have a herculean task: Just five months into his diplomatic assignment in Washington - in which Sri Lanka didn't have an ambassador for two straight years: a foreign policy/diplomatic misadventure - Ambassador Rodney Perera is on a fast track to fill the lacuna of the relations between the two nations and re-starting to counsel the state department and Washington diplomatic corps.

At a time the Trump administration has sidelined the operation of the US Department of Sate in devaluing the latter's importance in public affairs, public diplomacy and strategic communication one of which the failure to fill vital senior positions with full-time seasoned career Foreign Se...