Sri Lanka, Feb. 25 -- Everybody has a view in this country but how many of these people have a vision? The talking heads on television would tell you they have a vision and a plan about how to go about making people want to live in this country, and not desert it.

They have views. They have an angle on everything in the nine o'clock news and on every recent arrest and every recent piece of legislation. They have views counter to other people's views. There is such a surfeit of views that entirely unknown people are chosen to babble on about issues such as the country's finances and its future prospects.

These views are accompanied by considerable verbal diarrhoea. They would tell you that these are the fundamentals they learned about at...