On Tue, 13 May 2008 12:27:14 GMT, "paul" <2@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>"B1ackwater" <bw@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>news:48298301.4311609@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> Re****ts to CNN and others say that much of the emergency
>> food being sent to Burma is being hoarded by the military
>> for its own use or re-sale. Re****ters attempting to
>> investigate claim they are in constant fear for their
>> lives with the junta constantly on the lookout for
>> them and their phone communications tapped.
>>
>> President Bush this weekend threatened to send planes
>> into Burma without the juntas permission - on a mission
>> to airdrop food/water/meds directly into the afflicted
>> areas. Given these recent re****ts, this may be a good
>> idea. Hopefully they'll have a few fighter jets as
>> escorts, in case the junta attempts to fire on the
>> relief flights.
>>
>> Such an extreme of unconcern and corruption earns the
>> Burma junta its place on the "axis of evil" so far
>> as I'm concerned. Seems that the worst rumors about
>> this "government" which have leaked-out over the past
>> years were probably true. If Burma was building a
>> nuclear reactor, we'd have blasted this 'government'
>> into ashes by now.
>>
>> There must be opposition groups in Burma. I suggest we
>> arm them and give them access to spy satellite data so
>> they can plan an overthrow. Hardly matters who they are,
>> they can't be any WORSE than who's in charge now.
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>Preach on brother. I posted something similar a few minutes ago but
hasn't
>shown up yet.
>
>It is indeed time for the nuclear option. This junta has no redeeeming
>qualities. Their OWN people are dying and their only concern is holding
on
>to power, oh yes and living in luxury on the high quality food aid being
>sent in.
Doing nothing - waiting on these self-involved thugs - is
a crime against humanity.
We don't have to 'nuke' them ... but we - and every other
civilized country - needs to get AROUND them immediately.
If seeing other governments do what their OWN government
should have been doing destabilizes the junta, well, my
heart just bleeds for 'em .....
>If the U.S. and the free world doesn't do something, then our status as
the
>most powerful nation in the history of the world means nothing.
It's not even about "power" ... aside from the power to do
what's right.
>Bosnia yes
>but Myanmar no ?
Bosnia took a long time to develop - an escalating series
of insurgents -vs- government, government -vs- insurgents,
christians -vs- moslems, moslems -vs- christians ... there
was TIME to see what was happening and form a plan.
These mega-disasters however ... the tsunami, the Pakistan
earthquake, the typhoons in Bangladesh and Burma ... no warning,
no TIME. If anything useful is to be done it needs to be done
QUICKLY.
>THIS is genocide too. I bet it would not take very many
>smart bombs on top of junta mansions before they saw the light. No more
>diplomatic hand wringing bullsh|t.
"Genocide" is a term reserved for one racial/ethnic group
literally wiping-out the genes of a rival group. There
was nothing 'different' about the afflicted and unafflicted
in Burma except the geographical particulars. The junta
JUST DOESN'T GIVE A DAMN. Their own power and interests
predominate. They are not a 'government' by any modern
definition, merely the most powerful GANG.
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