Giving humanitarian aid is one thing, but using the opportunity to push politics and use aid workers as political pot stirrers is totally another. If US aircraft violate Burmese sovereign airspace they deserve to be shot down.

Im consistent with my feelings on this one...

And NO we shouldnt go in there, even if it is to help.

Now if the leadership of that nation would smarten up, they would realize that millions of American people will gladly donate a great amount of money to assist and help them, and so they SHOULD accept our help.

But if they dont want us there then no we shouldnt overstep our boundaries.

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They don't want our help....

then

f___'em

Not very Christian I realize...but the leaders of the Junta do not have the needs of their citizenry in mind, they are playing politics with it.

I'm somewhat more isolationist in my approach to foreign policy now. Certain cultures may just kill each other off, and this isn't necessarily a bad thing, it rids the World of an Evil.

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Really? How is that working?

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And he said, Verily I say unto you, No prophet is accepted in his own country.

If you consider anyone respecting to live like that. Ever heard of Dr Doom?

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And he said unto them, Ye will surely say unto me this proverb, Physician, heal thyself: whatsoever we have heard done in Capernaum, do also here in thy country.

And he said, Verily I say unto you, No prophet is accepted in his own country.

That has to be one of the most asinine statements I've read in recent history. I realize it's an attempt at sarcasm but (*)(*)(*)(*).

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These people have storms all the time. They have been beign killed by storms for hundreds of years.

Its time they took care of themselves. Strarvation can be alleviated either by them accepting their fates or forcing them to eat dirt!
We cannot get involved in the middle of their war with nature.
How dare the USA feed people!

Yes there wil be mass death but whats a little mass death to our being able to live our pampered lives. The dieases can be contained!

BILLIONS are be funneled into this ill advised campaign to feed worthess people. What did Burma have to do with Mcdonalds?..NOTHING!

This campaign is all a wasteful effort by knee jerks to save worthless people from a fate they have to solve themselves.

It is unwinnable. There is no success in Burma only less failure!

This is all clearly to corner the Jade Market.

Facism!







Hows that?

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They shouldn't do it. It will only help to prop up that terrible regime.

What we SHOULD be doing is publically calling on fellow Security Council member China, it's next-door neighbor and most influential 'friendly', to take the lead on this. They are flush with money, most of it U.S. debt and U.S. imports. Let them be a world leader for once.

The Burmese tyrants are understandbly reluctant to allow US aid into their country because they know only too well that the aid will probably be subject to economic pre-conditions further down the line. Burma is rich in natural resources and the Burmese junta are well aware that the 'natural' disaster that has befallen their country will provide the potential opportunity for yet another US-led invasion and subsequent economic liberalisation (code for plunder) of their countries resources.

The writer Naomi Klein has documented in detail the impacts of natural disasters in third world countries and the wests response to them, in her book "Disaster Capitalism". She argues that natural disasters provide the ideal opportunity for western governments to re-configure third world societies and economies through the implementation of neo-liberal economic policies and/or invasion. Since the disaster in Burma we have been bombarded with a constant stream of anti-Burmese government propaganda in relation to the alleged prevention of western aid being allowed to reach the people of that stricken country.

Things were very different following the events in New Orleans. Following the tragic events of Katrina the western media were not so pre-occupied in their concerns for the welfare of human beings. For example, Bush refused practical help from both Iran and Cuba following the disaster for ideological and political reasons, in much the same way that the Burmese leadership are alleged to be doing now, but this was not widely reported on. Equally, we would be hard pressed to read or hear anything in our media in relation to the humanitarian crisis currently occuring in Ethiopia because we are more interested in her enemy who we are backing with guns, weapons and tanks.

That enemy is Sudan, whose capital, Darfur, we happen to read and see a lot about. Darfur is rich in oil. I need say no more suffice to say, that we are not concerned about the various humanitarian crisis in the world unless we can get a fast buck in return. Coverage of resource rich Burma has reached saturation point in the media as a pre-requisite for future invasion and subsequent control of those resources.