Burma's military junta (for an explanation as to why I won't call Burma "Myanmar", go read a history of the country) has promised U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon that they will allow foreign aid workers into the country to help its two million citizens left homeless after the recent cyclone. Of course, it's taken so long for these pricks to allow access that many Burmese are now diseased and dying from drinking contaminated water. Of course, there aren't any easy solutions to this problem. Removing the regime militarily could result in an inter-ethnic civil war, while not working to remove them has its obvious downsides. Plus, air dropping aid onto the country is also a bad idea, since the strongest, fittest, and least needy would make a mad dash for it. And this all seemed to simple in Rambo. Why oh why can't puffy pecs and chain guns solve the world's problems? More details here.
Friday, May 23, 2008
Burmese Junta Slightly Less Evil
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