Is it time to invade Burma?

[Agent CSL]

Waking up to two bad news and a headache most foul...

Let's see. There was a cyclone, a lot of people are dying. The government/junta of Burma (Myanmar) will not allow outside aid. The UN's packages and shipments have been confiscated by the military so "they can ration it themselves."

There are many perspectives we're probably not seeing. The media/aid groups are calling to INVADE Myanmar. The media is eating up this story like a whore on Brad Pitt, they even went the scoundrels route and compared it to Darfur. If I was them, I would have chose a better word than "invade." They (aid groups) went very wrong there.

Death is horrible but let's look at the government of Myanmar for a second. A lot of people are seeing them as ruthless, selfish bastards and during the monks incidents I probably would agree. But is confiscating/declining aid from other countries the sign of an evil empire out to kill it's people, or the sign of a peoples who wish to remain completely independent and sovereign? To be completely faithful in their own ability (citizens included) to distribute food, water and repair structures?

Maybe what we're seeing in Myanmar is true independence, or maybe I'm wrong, and the Myanmar government really is as bad as the media portrays it.

What do you think about the article below?

Article: http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1739053,00.html?cnn=yes

 

[constituent]

maybe we should look at this as an exercise in the futility of handing out goods that typically end up used by governments and other organizations for extortion purposes?


perhaps we can start talking about how all the well-meaning liberals only make the problem worse the more "aid" they hand out?



....doubt it

 

[crazyfingers]

Any sort of invasion/"humanitarian" military effort is very poorly conceived and most certainly would backfire, but that's no reason to defend the tyrannical government the Burmese people live under. It doesn't seem like an issue of sovereignty to me. It seems like a group of thugs exploiting people's basic needs so they can hold onto illegitimate power.

 

[pinkmandy]

maybe we should look at this as an exercise in the futility of handing out goods that typically end up used by governments and other organizations for extortion purposes?


perhaps we can start talking about how all the well-meaning liberals only make the problem worse the more "aid" they hand out?



....doubt it

QFT

 

[Agent CSL]

Any sort of invasion/"humanitarian" military effort is very poorly conceived and most certainly would backfire, but that's no reason to defend the tyrannical government the Burmese people live under. It doesn't seem like an issue of sovereignty to me. It seems like a group of thugs exploiting people's basic needs so they can hold onto illegitimate power.

I wanted to give them the benefit of the doubt. I stopped trusting the media's point of view a long time ago and that's the only one I have on Myanmar. But like I said "I probably would agree" with the media's view of them based on the monks protests and whatnot.

The media's view is poison. Up until a couple years ago I went along with everyone else thinking the middle east was a desert with clay huts and camels.

But here's the other side of Myanmar:

 

[hypnagogue]

There wont' be an invasion. We don't invade for principle, we invade for economics. Myanmar is irrelevant.

 

[liberteebell]

Maybe they don't want our aid after they saw how badly we screwed up New Orleans??

 

[american empire]

Maybe they don't want our aid after they saw how badly we screwed up New Orleans??

haha funny shit....

well by invasion of iraq standards...spreading "democracy"....we should go in...also zimbabwe....saudi arabia....libya....jordan....egypt....but wait we have our proxy rulers...

its all a sham...its just that the people are foolish to believe that saddam=evil=invade

myanmar has rubies but until they suddenly start converting them to oil i doubt we will attack....besides we let the local military do the dirty work....