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Originally Posted by eleanoraquitaine
Alright, all you America hating "liberal" "peace lovers" ought to be up in arms because the USA is about to start dropping food, water and other aid to the cyclone victims, without their government's permission. We are actually going to invade their country's airspace to help their people.
Man, America is such an evil country.
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Update on this~
*No U.S. relief until permission is granted.*
WASHINGTON - Defense Secretary Robert Gates said Thursday the U.S. military was moving forward with plans to mount a relief mission in Myanmar, but he said he couldn't imagine air dropping aid without permission from the closed regime.
His comments followed those earlier Thursday by Ky Luu, the director of the U.S. Office of Foreign Disaster Assistance, that an air drop was one of the options being considered as Myanmar's junta continued to stall on accepting assistance from the United States.
Gates said the military was moving aircraft and ships into place to help deliver humanitarian supplies once permission is granted.
"I cannot image us going in without the permission of the Myanmar government," Gates said at a Pentagon press conference with Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Adm. Mike Mullen.
Asked if it would be helpful to victims for the U.S. to drop supplies, Mullen said: "We could. Typically, though, it's sovereign airspace and you'd need their permission to fly in that airspace."
"It's all tied to sovereignty, which we respect whether it's on the ground or in the air," Mullen said.