In the appropriate circumstance the military option may not only be the best option, but the only reasonable course of action to save a people from its’ government… it is time, in my opinion, to exercise that option in Myanmar/Burma.
I know that will come as a bit of a shock to some of the Bunkers more right leaning brethren who operate on the misguided assumption that we are hard core leftie surrender monkey pacifists, especially if they weren’t around to see us not voice opposition to the invasion of Afghanistan - the illegal, self-centered, egotistic, poorly planned and executed, invasion of Iraq, for which we think Bush and his administration should be tried for war crimes and publicly flogged before being sent into solitary confinement until their deaths, tends to over shadow that… but that’s another story.
The death toll in Myanmar/Burma is staggering, and with the military junta getting in the way of an international effort to help the people by holding aid workers and aid at airports, refusing planes full of aid permission to land, and forcing shiploads of aid to remain floating around in the ocean, that military junta should be over run by an international force, and Myanmar/Burma turned into an international protectorate until the mess gets sorted out, the country put back on it’s feet, and a real government determined by the people.
The chances of that happening are slim to none, not (we’re sure) because the international community hasn’t thought about it, but in all likelihood because that community is full of ego driven leaders who can’t decide among themselves how to go about it, how the protectorate would be run, and who would be making the decisions.
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Whooee! I think yer right, SL. In Burma, we have a military obstacle to humanitarian relief. That military obstacle threatens to unleash a wave of post-catastrophe complications that will kill far more people than the direct effects of the cyclone. Some are saying the final death count after starvation, cholera and other illnesses take their toll could reach 1.5 million.
When the lives of this many people are put at risk by a power-obsessed military, a military response is probably the only way to prevent mass annihilation.
JB