Invasion Burma! or is it Myanmar?

[ImWithStupid]

Is It Time to Invade Burma?

 

By ROMESH RATNESAR

Sat May 10, 11:50 AM ET

 

The disaster in Burma presents the world with perhaps its most serious humanitarian crisis since the 2004 Asian tsunami. By most reliable estimates, close to 100,000 people are dead. Delays in delivering relief to the victims, the inaccessibility of the stricken areas and the poor state of Burma's infrastructure and health systems mean that number is sure to rise. With as many as 1 million people still at risk, it is conceivable that the death toll will, within days, approach that of the entire number of civilians killed in the genocide in Darfur.

 

So what is the world doing about it? Not much. The military regime that runs Burma initially signaled it would accept outside relief, but has imposed so many conditions on those who would actually deliver it that barely a trickle has made it through. Aid workers have been held at airports. U.N. food shipments have been seized. U.S. naval ships packed with food and medicine idle in the Gulf of Thailand, waiting for an all-clear that may never come.

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http://news.yahoo.com/s/time/20080510/wl_time/isittimetoinvadeburma;_ylt=AuYTB3f9UdyDFFbVEIwxxeqs0NUE

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[snafu]

Why isn't there world wide outrage? Dosn't any other country care about human suffering?

[ImWithStupid]

That's what I've said for years. The world whines and complains that the US tries to stick it's nose into everything, but if it wasn't for us, there wouldn't be many nations willing to step up if we said we were staying out of this one.

 

Where is China, where is Russia, where is France?

 

I have a theory on why they don't want the help in. I think that one of the factions of the civil war there is using the natural disaster as a way to try to cover up the genocide they are committing. Lumping the murdered in with the ones who died as a result of the disaster.

[phreakwars]

Why isn't there world wide outrage? Dosn't any other country care about human suffering?

Because Myanmar doesn't have oil reserves we could pillage. Therefore, their struggles and hardships mean nothing.

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[ImWithStupid]

Because Myanmar doesn't have oil reserves we could pillage. Therefore, their struggles and hardships mean nothing.

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actually there is large oil and natural gas reserves there.

[eddo]

Because Myanmar doesn't have oil reserves we could pillage. Therefore, their struggles and hardships mean nothing.

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Yeah, cuz the Iraq War is doing so much to get us oil and bring down fuel prices...

[phreakwars]

Oh.. well in that case... DAMN THAT GOVERNMENT, we should strike before the end of the month.

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[snafu]

Oh.. well in that case... DAMN THAT GOVERNMENT, we should strike before the end of the month.

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LOL

Well I guess we can't nuke the place just becasuse they don't wanna take our help.