Tigers tamed?

Sri Lanka is now reporting that its forces have killed Tamil Tiger  senior leader Vellipulai Prabhakaran,  and that other leaders  committed suicide in their bunkers as government forces closed in.

Congratulations to the Sri Lankan goverment,  since it correctly ignored pleas from our own State Department to broker a ceasefire.  Apparently we have no one at State with either a brain or a memory to enable recognition of the favorite  terrorist ploy of agreeing to a cessation of hostilities when they’re getting their butts whipped,   then using the time off to re-arm and agitate.

Where would they be with a negotiated peace like Nepal,  which now faces a revolution from within?    Is there anyone,  anywhere,   in the entire Obama administration able to look at the two countries,  at the two vastly different outcomes,  and get a useful hint for both Afghanistan and Pakistan?