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A press release from the party said that the war has never been fought with a single-minded determination to win. "The political imperative has, at all times, superseded the military imperative," General Secretary Tilak Karunaratne said in the release. "This is clearly not a time for recrimination but a time for "taking stock" of the situation and determining the future course of action of this country. Regrettably this cannot be done without a review of the past even though it may have the appearance of recrimination." "This war has never ever been fought with a singleminded determination to win. The political imperative has at all times superseded the military imperative. As far as the two major parties that ruled our land since independence, namely, the UNP and the SLFP and their hangers on were concerened, this war has been nothing more than a nonsensical game of one upmanship". "The concern of the present government has been to show that they had 'captured' more territory than the last, regardless of how many died or were maimed or captured or would suffer such fates in the process. The concern of the government-in-waiting (the UNP) was to gloat over the fact that more troops were martyred for the sake of office of this government than the last," he notes. "The government and the UNP, who never cooperated to defeat the LTTE but, are instead, intent on finding ways and means of bartering away our country to the LTTE are incapable of giving our leaderless country the leadership it sorely needs. The government and UNP must realise , even now that conceding even a part of the country to the LTTE will result in the loss of the whole.", he said.
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