Originally Posted By DAR <a href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080508/ap_on_re_as/myanmar_cyclone" target="_blank">http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/200..._cyclone</a>
Originally Posted By DAR Although we considering say bleep you to the Mynmar government. <a href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080508/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/us_myanmar;_ylt=AsnSyaiQlLTy6xB.j5G1SDOs0NUE" target="_blank">http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/200...SDOs0NUE</a> I think this is one time when you can't complain about doing things our way.
Originally Posted By EighthDwarf Funny....it kind of sounds like what happened in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina (you know, aid slow to come, a lot of beurocracy, poor people in low-lying areas suffering, etc). So I guess this kind of stuff doesn't only happen under dictatorships. Oh wait.... Where's "brownie" when you need him? ;-) PS: I think a foreign aid invasion would be cool.
Originally Posted By X-san I agree that regimes such as this one suck. However, looking beyond the propaganda, I also wonder if there is perhaps some precedent in the region for other countries coming in and taking over following a natural disaster such as this. I'm not sure that there is, but it would seem to be a typical move for any aggressive power (I could imagine Japan doing something like that back in the day, for example, without thinking twice). So, if not, what's the point? I suppose that would fall under brutality for the sake of it (allowing your own to suffer), and sadly is a very good possibility. The worst part is, it's always the disenfranchised, the innocent, and the poor who suffer the greatest because of dumb politics like this.
Originally Posted By DisneyFreak96 Interesting article in Time Magazine <a href="http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1739053,00.html" target="_blank">http://www.time.com/time/world...,00.html</a> <<That's why it's time to consider a more serious option: invading Burma. Some observers, including former USAID director Andrew Natsios, have called on the US to unilaterally begin air drops to the Burmese people regardless of what the junta says. The Bush Administration has so far rejected the idea — "I can't imagine us going in without the permission of the Myanmar government," Defense Secretary Robert Gates said Thursday — but it's not without precedent: as Natsios pointed out to the Wall Street Journal, the US has facilitated the delivery of humanitarian aid without the host government's consent in places like Bosnia and Sudan.>>
