Usually PCR talks more sense but here it's just a load of utter crap based on his vivid imaginations assumptions while AKD is talking simple facts and stats. Going with his argument, if those who well for JVP or LTTE propaganda were intelligent and creative, would they have fallen to it in the first place? If you talk to some of his peers you'd notice what kind of a creature he himself was at that time. Vietnam went through similar or even tougher conflicts but they are doing much better than us simply on a global market level.