[pillut48]

OMG! :*( :*(

I can’t wait for the UN/NATO troops to rush to Burma to...
what? They aren’t going to do anything??

Never mind. *sigh*

[muawiyah]

You can be sure Osamabama has written these guys off already. And the Hildabeast? I think she and the Nancy woman are looking forward to arranging some preliminary meetings with the ruling generals so we wouldn’t want to unnecessarily insult them now.

[underground]

The U.N. isn’t going to touch it because each permanent member of the security council has existing financial deals with the ruling government.

U.S. - Chevron
U.K. - BP
France - Total
China - various gas contracts
Russia - trying to sell the Myanmar government a nuclear reactor

India’s Oil Minister was just in the region to sign more energy contracts when the protests started.

[Verginius Rufus]

The Kennedy administration in 1963 decided that Diem had to go because he had offended the Buddhists. (I forget if he had killed any of them--of course there were the Buddhist monks who protested by burning themselves to death, which his sister-in-law Madame Nhu tastelessly referred to as "monk barbeques.")

That was different--Diem was on the right, the Burmese government is on the left, so it will get a pass.

[expatguy]

The world stood by and did nothing but TALK

An American Expat in Southeast Asia