The government's obvious anxiety about General Fonseka's possible candidacy is a consequence of Mr Rajapaksa's plans to call a presidential election in early 2010, nearly two years before the end of his six-year term.
In addition, a recent effort is under way to make use of the many PCIe-based interfaces that are developing as a consequence of the high speed data transfers that are possible using flash memory and future non-volatile memory devices.
While recognizing that war can be necessary, he understands out of both personal experience and practical consequence that war is best avoided, if possible.
Economic expansion and development is the happy consequence of people participating in an extensive market division labor made possible by the accumulation of capital that is wisely invested and directed by entrepreneurs.